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Time's Arrow (Vintage International)
Time's Arrow - Vintage International
Author: Martin Amis
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly 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. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. — "The narrative moves wit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679735724
ISBN-10: 0679735720
Publication Date: 9/29/1992
Pages: 176
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 35 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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only a writer with the overarching vision and prodigal narrative gifts of Martin Amis could give us a novel that not ony rethinks history but Drastically revises our notion of time itself.
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this is a very cool book. the author really pulled off what seemed would be the impossible task of writing a life in reverse. tod's soul is aware that time should go forward but tod seems unaware. there was one moment when time went forward in the book and i would love to know the author's reason for that brief moment.
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