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Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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 Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly. He dies and then feels better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home.©1991 Martin Amis (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Science Fiction

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Deeply unsettling and brilliantly conceived, but requires full concentration and an intellect greater than mine to follow at times. Dark and powerful enough in its study of banal cruelty and evil to give me vivid nightmares

Can you escape your past? Or your future?

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really really slow start.... does get interesting in the last hour or so of listening but not going to be everyone's cup of tea

it's a long wait....

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This is a story told backwards. It takes a bit of getting used to; you need to concentrate much harder, particularly with dialogue. The mysterious narrator, however, does not know that he is telling the story backwards, and his increasingly grotesque misinterpretation of events is both painfully funny and increasingly disturbing - particularly as it is all expressed in Martin Amis' quite brilliant prose. A very powerful and thought provoking book. Steven Pacey, who has narrated several of Ammis' books, turns in a tour de force - absolutely superb.

In short a disturbing book, but a very worthwhile book. I would strongly recommend it, but it is not a light listen!

powerful & disturbing - needs concentration!

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awesome book. thought provoking and highly original.
well worth a listen.


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cracking

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I suspect you will either love or hate this book.
I did not find the reverse telling of it hard to follow. Many times in the first half of the book the backwards nature gives rise to hilarious situations. Later on of course the book becomes very sad. Steven Pacey, always an excellent narrator, is sublime here.

Very clever, funny and sad.

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