In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.
"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a ...
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.
"The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art."--Newsday
作者简介
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Martin Amis is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels Money and London Fields. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice. Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2...
Martin Amis is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels Money and London Fields. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and has been listed for the Booker Prize twice. Amis served as the Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
0 有用 Faithful 2013-10-15 09:13:37
An alternative perspective of a significant chapter in human history
0 有用 BBlalaee 2018-11-04 06:56:00
生词真的有点多,而且这个创作手法有点难理解,要分辨时间线,还要理清narrator 和character 的关系,累…
0 有用 joyce 2010-09-30 13:21:09
Life goes backward
1 有用 Sydlililulula 2023-04-08 13:39:46 四川
看得我一愣一愣的 Amis真的还是才聪明太会写 我这样可怜的读者被他玩弄于股掌之间!!
0 有用 乐未央 2011-07-09 21:42:05
科幻+纳粹题材,够另类。