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Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz
Guardian
The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's <i>A Modest Proposal</i>. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date
Financial Times
Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave
Independent on Sunday
An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best
Time Out
Amis's most daring and ambitious novel
Daily Telegraph
Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards.
Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America.
From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the boat back to war-torn Europe, Friendly carries with him a secret. Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly’s consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor’s most ambitious project yet – the final solution.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily Telegraph