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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 was born on 25 August 1949 at Radcliffe Maternity Hospital in Oxford, England. [8] His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; [4] his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, [9] was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant.
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Martin Amis was a leading voice among a generation of writers that included his good friend, the late Christopher Hitchens, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie. British novelist Martin Amis, who brought ...
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 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."
Experience was awarded the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. The book has appeared on some critics' lists after and during its time of release. According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is "The 1257th greatest book of all time".
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