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  Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence (Paperback) By (author) Martin Amis

  

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  Short Description for Time's Arrow or the Nature of the OffenceThe story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, 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.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 13 August 2003
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099455356 ISBN 10: 0099455358
  • Sales rank: 21,136

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Full description for Time's Arrow or the Nature of the Offence

• Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 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, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time.