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Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology, with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel.
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- 1991
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26 de set. de 1991 · Martin Amis. 3.76. 16,397 ratings1,446 reviews. 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.
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29 de set. de 1992 · by Martin Amis (Author) 4.2 763 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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3 de mai. de 2024 · Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991, Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow depicts the life of a Nazi war criminal in reverse order, and asks big questions about destiny and morality
Time's Arrow. Martin Amis. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991 - Fiction - 176 pages. In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of...
- Martin Amis
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991
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- Time's ArrowVintage International
Plot Summary. Time’s Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence is a 1991 novel by the British writer Martin Amis. It recounts the life of a Nazi doctor, Odilo Unverdorben, in reverse, from the moment of his death to the moment of his birth. Time’s Arrow was nominated for the 1991 Booker Prize.
9 de jan. de 2010 · John Mullan. Fri 8 Jan 2010 19.05 EST. Time's Arrow is not the first novel with a reverse chronology, but no other novel has reversed time so conscientiously. Most narratives that run...