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Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence Book

The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves 'out of the blackest sleep' to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned.Read More

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    Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the boat back to war-torn Europe, Friendly carries with him a secret. 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph

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    Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Time's Arrow tells the story backwards of the life of Nazi war criminal Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home...Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.

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    Time's Arrow : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099455356 : : 16 Jun 2011 : 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. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph

  • 0099455358
  • 9780099455356
  • Martin Amis
  • 13 August 2003
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
  • New edition
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