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Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991. It is notable partly because the events occur in a reverse chronology , with time passing in reverse and the main character becoming younger and younger during the novel.
Amis's 2014 novel The Zone of Interest concerns the Holocaust, his second work of fiction to tackle the subject after Time's Arrow. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] In it, Amis endeavoured to imagine the social and domestic lives of the Nazi officers who ran the death camps, and the effect their indifference to human suffering had on their general psychology.
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Martin Amis: Time's Arrow: Jonathan Cape Roddy Doyle: The Van: Secker & Warburg Rohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey: Faber & Faber Timothy Mo: The Redundancy of Courage: Chatto & Windus William Trevor: Reading Turgenev [4] Viking 1992 Winners Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient: Bloomsbury Victoria Glendinning (chair) John Coldstream ...
Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled ...
The twenty-six articles collected, many of which are expanded from their original forms and containing postscripts commenting on subsequent developments after publication, are drawn from Amis' numerous contributions to The Observer, the New Statesman, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, the London Review of Books, Tatler, and Vanity Fair [5] between 1977–85.
The Rub of Time received generally positive reviews. In The New York Times, A. O. Scott wrote that "We can quibble about whether the ability to turn out a predetermined quantity of lucid, witty, sometimes moving, rarely boring prose on assignment and on deadline should be classified as a talent or a skill...What seems to me beyond argument is that Amis is good at it."
The pieces include book reviews and interviews Amis conducted with other authors, and occasional journalism that Amis wrote while working for The Observer, The Guardian, and other publications during his early career as a writer. Among the authors that Amis profiles are Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard and John Updike.