Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence

by Martin Amis (Author), Martin Amis (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $4.16

  The story of a life lived backwards in time. Its narrator, 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. The novel was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $11.47

  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.