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Time's Arrow (novel) Time's Arrow. (novel) 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.
- Martin Amis
- 165 pp
- 1991
- 1991
The arrow of time, also called time's arrow, is the concept positing the "one-way direction" or "asymmetry" of time. It was developed in 1927 by the British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, and is an unsolved general physics question. This direction, according to Eddington, could be determined by studying the organization of atoms, molecules ...
Sep 29, 1992 · Time's Arrow. Paperback – September 29, 1992. by Martin Amis (Author) 748. See all formats and editions. In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” —Time Out), finds a chillingly ...
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Sep 26, 1991 · In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. 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. And all the while Tod's life races backward in time toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. 165 pages, Paperback.
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List of episodes. " Time’s Arrow " is the 26th episode of the fifth season and the first episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It comprises the 126th and 127th episodes of the series. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the ...
- Season 5 & 6, Episodes 26 & 1
- Joe Menosky
Jan 20, 2010 · Wed 20 Jan 2010 10.57 EST. When Time's Arrow was published in 1991 it received a few doubting reviews but many more that were extravagant in their praise. These were fulsome even by the standard ...
Time’s Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence is a 1991 novel by the British writer Martin Amis. It recounts the life of a Nazi doctor, Odilo Unverdorben, in reverse, from the moment of his death to the moment of his birth. Time’s Arrow was nominated for the 1991 Booker Prize. The novel begins on the operating table, somewhere in the United ...
