{"product_id":"times-arrow-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619214266642,"sku":"9780679735724","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_335dddb4-1e0b-4f49-9e4a-208e894dd097.jpg?v=1732546659","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/times-arrow-9780679735724","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}