Title: Time's Arrow
Title Record # 6815
Author: Martin Amis
Date: 1991-09-00
Type: NOVEL
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Language: English
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Author: Martin Amis
Date: 1991-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: thebookerprizes.com, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.
Synopsis: From Amazon description:
In this icy, knife's-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis ("at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best" —Time Out), finds a chillingly original approach to the Holocaust in fiction • From the acclaimed author of Zone of Interest
"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art." —Newsday
Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves "out of blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America.
As Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel's inevitable logic. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly's consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor's most ambitious project yet—the final solution.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence | 1991-09-00 | Martin Amis | Jonathan Cape | 0-224-03093-0 | £13.99?£: UK pound |
176 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | The Douglas Brothers | |
Time's Arrow | 1991-12-00 | Martin Amis | Harmony Books / BOMC | $9.00?$: US dollar |
160 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Chip Kidd | ||
Time's Arrow, or, The Nature of the Offense | 1991-12-00 | Martin Amis | Harmony Books | 0-517-58515-4 | $18.00?$: US dollar |
168 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Chip Kidd | |
Ajan suunta | 1992-00-00 | Martin Amis | Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö?Werner Soederstroem Osakeyhtioe Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio |
951-1-12274-6 | 169 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Time's Arrow | 1992-08-00 | Martin Amis | Harmony Books / QPBC | $9.95?$: US dollar |
160 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Chip Kidd | ||
Time's Arrow | 1992-09-00 | Martin Amis | Penguin Books | 0-14-016779-X | £5.99?£: UK pound |
176 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Time's Arrow | 1992-11-00 | Martin Amis | Vintage Books (Vintage International) | 0-679-73572-0 | $10.00?$: US dollar |
165 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Drew Roth | |
La freccia del tempo, o, La natura dell'offesa | 1993-02-00 | Martin Amis | Mondadori (Omnibus) | 88-04-36761-X | Lit 27,000?Lit: Italian lira |
166 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
La freccia del tempo, o, La natura dell'offesa | 1996-03-00 | Martin Amis | Mondadori (Piccola Biblioteca Oscar #123) | 88-04-41298-4 | Lit 9,000?Lit: Italian lira |
174 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Time's Arrow | 2003-08-00 | Martin Amis | Vintage (UK) | 0-09-945535-8 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
176 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence | 2010-12-23 | Martin Amis | Vintage Digital | 978-1-4464-0140-8 | £5.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence | 2011-04-06 | Martin Amis | Vintage Books (Vintage International) | 978-0-307-77777-5 | $9.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Time's Arrow | date unknown | Martin Amis | Vintage (UK) | 0-09-945535-8 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
176 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by M. John Harrison (1991) in Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison, (2005)
- Review by Dan Chow (1992) in Locus, #372 January 1992
- Review by Scott Edelman (1992) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1992
- Review by Paul Kincaid (1992) in Foundation, #55 Summer 1992