Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz

Guardian

The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's <i>A Modest Proposal</i>. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date

Financial Times

Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave

Independent on Sunday

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An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best

Time Out

Amis's most daring and ambitious novel

Daily Telegraph

Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the boat back to war-torn Europe, Friendly carries with him a secret. 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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph
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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.SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph
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'A daring and ambitious novel' (Daily Telegraph) that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099455356
Publisert
2003-08-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
110 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.