{"product_id":"times-arrow-isbn-9780679735724","title":"Time's Arrow","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 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 Holocaust in fiction • From the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eZone of Interest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art.\" —Newsday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Doctor Friendly has just died, but he moves “out of blackest sleep” to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. After weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colors existence in suburban America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Friendly breaks up with his lovers in a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home, his life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then back to the boat which reverses his course to the war-torn Europe Friendly came from, Amis brings the steeliest nerve to the job of realizing the novel’s inevitable logic. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[A] novel that seems to have been written with the term 'tour de force' in mind. . . . A brilliant job.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A breakthrough . . . etched with acid irony and trickery . . . To submit to [Amis's] comic tweaking and tickling is to abet the inevitable logic of his assault on our senses. . . .  \u003ci\u003eTime's Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e, his tautest and sleekest novel yet, is also his most wide-angled and farsighted. . . . A hard look at our dark age through glittering alien eyes.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBoston Phoenix Literary Section\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliantly imaginative feat.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMirabella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Audacious, utterly poised and almost moving . . . the book's devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's \u003ci\u003eA Modest Proposal\u003c\/i\u003e. It is . . . Amis's finest achievement to date.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amis can write prose that is spikily, nervously elegant, full of urgency and surprise.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Prodigious cleverness. . . . A clever book.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Extraordinary—Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amis's most daring and ambitious novel.\" \u003cb\u003e―\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARTIN AMIS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of 15 novels—among them \u003ci\u003eZone of Interest, London Fields, Time’s Arrow, The Information, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Night Train\u003c\/i\u003e—along with the memoir \u003ci\u003eExperience,\u003c\/i\u003e the novelized self-portrait \u003ci\u003eInside Story\u003c\/i\u003e, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He died in 2023.Author of London Fields","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302215307493,"sku":"NP9780679735724","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679735724.jpg?v=1767742663","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/times-arrow-isbn-9780679735724","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}