Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T. Friendly. He 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... Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards.
4.3
Roger
2023-01-12
Amis does succeed in bringing to life the history of a person in strict reverse, but the whole process is a bit akin to reading a text written in the second person. This and Benjamin Button is all that literature can take. Great narrator!