OL16845W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 86.41 Pages 186 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:014016779X Urn:lcp:timesarrow00amis:lcpdf:60fd4f0e-9169-482e-ab25-f41a5f725e73 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier timesarrow00amis Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t24b48b7q Isbn 0517585154 Lccn 91004144 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2028038M Openlibrary_edition Well, we cry and twist and are naked at both ends of life.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:50:54 Boxid IA103709 Boxid_2 CH112101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st American ed. I always felt a gorgeous relief at the moment of the first stirring. a shoe like a heavy old bullet thrown out of the shadows, and skilfully caught”, and in the Auschwitz gas chamber: “I would monitor proceedings through the viewing slit. The welts, the abrasions and the black eyes get starker, more livid, until it is time for the women to return, in an ecstasy of distress, to the men who will suddenly heal them.” “Our clothes came at us. In New York: “The pimps and the little hookers. There is nothing new about its material, and it makes no attempt at explaining anything. You just cant, and Martin Amis knows this. It’s like standing on the edge of a cliff, knowing that the only way is down.Īmis’s imagination and linguistic agility know no bounds. Times Arrow by Martin Amis Life is no bowl of cherries. It’s leading inexorably to the black hole that is Auschwitz.
Amis’s vivid, visual language drags us from New York, to Portugal, to the Vatican, “long loot-crammed passages, with glass cases full of baubles and beauties”, the escape route for the worst of the worst.
It’s like flicking through a picture book, back to front. Underling to the repulsive Dr Mengele, known in the book as Uncle Pepi. It emerges that he’s an escaped Nazi, an Auschwitz alumnus. American doctors.” The voice is the voice of the unnamed protagonist. “I moved forward out of the blackest sleep, to find myself surrounded by doctors.
It begins at the end, in hospital in New York. The story is told in reverse chronology and makes the mere 165 pages a very laborious read. Friendly, living in the United States, who once worked in Auschwitz as a doctor. Or Newton's apple whizzing into the tree. book:Times Arrow23031 by author:Martin Amis11337 published 1991 is the story of Dr.
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