5/18/2023 0 Comments Time's Arrow by Martin AmisCarrying it off successfully seemed quite a task, even for someone of Amis's prodigious talent. I always thought that the idea of a novel about the Holocaust told backwards, through the eyes of someone living inside the head of a Nazi war criminal, seemed like too much of a gimmick. And, speaking personally, unlike other Amis books, I've never had much of an urge to read it. (Money and Experience have even more results, but too many of those must be false positives). A search on Google,, brings up far fewer results (by a factor of at least 2:1) for reviews of Time's Arrow than for London Fields or The Information. Now though, I suspect it is viewed as one of his lesser works. Time's Arrow also had the distinction – absurdly – of being the only novel by Amis Jnr to be nominated for the Booker prize. Rose Tremain said: "Time's Arrow turns the bored, banjaxed, broken-hearted old reader into a breathless, bedazzled young reader for whom the novel becomes once again a source of illumination and an act of hope." James Wood described the book as "a stunning achievement, perilous and daring". These were fulsome even by the standard of the critical love letters that are so often directed at Martin Amis. When Time's Arrow was published in 1991 it received a few doubting reviews but many more that were extravagant in their praise.
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