We all love to be fooled. Some authors take this a little further than others. While all narrative is trickery in a sense, there are books that mess with the fundamentals of time and space so thoroughly, you have to open up a spreadsheet in order to figure out the timeline. Since our sense of […]
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 with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."Newsday
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"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."Newsday
Time's Arrow
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 with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."Newsday
"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."Newsday
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ISBN-13: | 9780307777775 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 04/06/2011 |
Series: | Vintage International |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 176 |
Sales rank: | 240,083 |
File size: | 3 MB |
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