A novel that seems to have been written with the term \'tour de force\' in mind .
Amis is] a daring, exacting writer willing to defy the odds in pursuit of his art.-- Newsday.
The narrative moves with irresistible momentum....
And all the while Tod\'s life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.
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.
In Time\'s Arrow the doctor Tod T. gripping from start to finish.--Los Angeles Times Book Review. . . bold . . .
Splendid .
Village Voice Literary Supplement. brings the abomination of the Holocaust home to the jaded late-20th-century reader in a way that few conventional novels could. . .
Amis\'s radical rethinking of time . . .
A novel that seems to have been written with the term \'tour de force\' in mind
