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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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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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Title	:	Time's Arrow
Author	:	Martin Amis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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As science fiction concepts go this was interesting, but in the hands of a respectable sf writer this could have been so much more. While the odd idea breaks, through such as the child who is able to crawl forward for a few seconds is intriguing he never takes it further.The usual amusment with reverse poo is there and why notNot a good starting point for my first Amis (or for anyone really) but will try again.

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



If an author were to narrate my experience reading this novel in reverse, they would depict me getting progressively less and less frustrated with the book, until the very moment I finally put it down.

When people move-- when they travel --they look where they've come from, not where they're going. Is this what the human beings always do? I have apparently read Martin Amis before. My goodreads review tells me I read his Money in 2016, but I had to read through my comments again to remember a single thing about it. I'm giving Time's Arrow a similarly middling rating, though I think this one will stay with me longer, if for no other reason than it required a decent amount of thought and effort

haunting, poetic and disturbing...Amis is a great writer. I am annoyed he didn't win the Booker with this book!

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