EAN: 9780679735724

MARTIN AMIS - GEBRAUCHT TIMES ARROW (VINTAGE IN...

In 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 Zone of Interest The narrative moves with irresistible momentum....
[Amis is] a daring  exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art. Newsday
Tod. T. Friendly is living his life in reverse. 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. As 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.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780679735724

Produktinformationen zur 9780679735724