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Original Title:	Time’s Arrow
ISBN:	0679735720 (ISBN13: 9780679735724)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Odilo Unverdorben, Reverend Nicholas Kreditor
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1991)

Time's Arrow

Martin Amis

Paperback | Pages: 165 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 14255 Users | 1042 Reviews

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Title	:	Time's Arrow
Author	:	Martin Amis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 165 pages
Published	:	October 1992 by Vintage (first published September 26th 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literature

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In his Afterword Amis pays tribute to a paragraph by Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five where a character watches a backwards-run film of the American planes scooping up bombs from Dresden and miraculously repairing the ruined city, before the bombs are sent back to a factory where all the dangerous contents of their cylinders are separated into harmless minerals. Amis here uses Vonnegut's ingenious tactic of running everything backwards to investigate the holocaust and the men who carried it out.

You might say Amis's narrator suffers from two conditions which regularly afflict casualties of war and perpetrators of unspeakable acts - dissociative amnesia and split personality disorder. The novel begins with an ageing doctor in New York stumbling backwards from a heart attack. The doctor is the host of our bewildered narrator who discovering no inner life in the doctor only has his dreams to provide clues for what's in store for him.

The backwards drift of the narrative, ingeniously sustained, provides lots of fabulous comedy. Churchgoers pocketing money from the collection box; garbage crews strewing rubbish all over the city's pristine streets; pigeons spitting out crumbs for a forsaken individual who takes them home and reconstitutes them into slices of bread. It's a novel that keeps your mind very active in attempts to re-evaluate so many casual things we do every day. Sexual relationships seen backwards also provide some laughs together with the odd disarming insight.

I would have liked to have read this not knowing we're eventually going to find ourselves in Auschwitz (the publishers chose clumsily to give away this twist in the blurb no doubt for commercial reasons.) Of course, we now know our doctor is going to heal the Jews and reunite them with their families. It sometimes makes for an uncomfortable reading experience being made to laugh at what happened at Auschwitz but what it does do very powerfully is evoke the idealistic insanity greasing the wheels of the chilling efficiency of the Nazi killing machine.

Certainly one thing it does is dump a pie in the face of every loony holocaust denier.

I recently read The Sense of an Ending which, broadly speaking, was about remorse. Remorse, one might say, is a dead end. The end of the line. The chilling grey day after Judgement day. Martin Amis here shows us the lengths the human brain will go to avoid remorse.

4+ stars.

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Read: November 2016Rating: 5/5 stars, best of 2016The plot: the narrator of this story inhabits the dying body of a man named Tod Friendly, and it soon becomes clear that the narrator is living backwards in time, as Tod becomes younger, loses and gains lovers, and moves from his current country back through Portugal and then to Poland and Auschwitz.I loved this book. It is so beautifully and cleverly written. It is a wonderful contrast to Counter Clock World by Philip K Dick which deals in a

Not much of a plot, but a really great idea for a novel combined with some great writing. The consciousness of a dying doctor, Tom Friendly, starts living his life backward as soon as he dies. This is not just telling the story of his life backward. Toms consciousness experiences his life with time literally reversed. Eating means throwing up food and putting it back on the plate. Constipation is quite a bizarre situation. Tom breaks up with his lovers, then is with them, then seduces them, then

The non-U USPA short book that is one long gimmick: clever as a writing exercise, but not worth publishing or reading. Once the novelty of a backwards story has worn off, there is little point to it and I lost interest (though I did finish it). And it's not even that original: Kurt Vonnegut had the same idea as a brief scene in "Slaughterhouse Five" (see my review here) as did Borges in the short story A Weary Mans Utopia, which is in "The Book of Sand" (see my review here), and probably

Life never really makes a lot of sense at the best of times. All of the philosophical ponderings on the eternal question of 'Why are we here?' haven't been able to come up with anything more convincing than 'Because'. Some people may wave other explanations such as 'The ineffable plan of God', which obviously, being ineffable means that it's not going to cut it as an explanation if it can't be explained then it might as well not exist. Even if it did, which is another eternal question to some

In his Afterword Amis pays tribute to a paragraph by Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five where a character watches a backwards-run film of the American planes scooping up bombs from Dresden and miraculously repairing the ruined city, before the bombs are sent back to a factory where all the dangerous contents of their cylinders are separated into harmless minerals. Amis here uses Vonnegut's ingenious tactic of running everything backwards to investigate the holocaust and the men who carried it

A frustrating experience. See, I'd had Martin Amis hyped to me as one of the funniest writers of the whole goddamn 20th century; a classmate of mine referred to The Rachel Papers as the funniest book he'd read besides Infinite Jest, and anyone who knows me knows an Infinite Jest comparison is going to pique my interest. Well, Amis' style of humor may have worked for him, and maybe it's different in the Rachel Papers (being Amis' first novel, it's entirely possible), but it didn't really work

English Standard Version (©2001)For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.What is it with them, the human beings? I suppose they remember what they want to remember.-Times Arrow This is what I want to remember: that I bought this off a wheeled cart for two quarters. That in a bad economy, this was a great investment. Amis is genius in this book. Pure genius. His structure starts with the last rattling