Time's Arrow (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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AMIS, Martin. Time's Arrow; or, The Nature of the Offence. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2011. Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with five raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 168 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, Collector's Notes, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Martin Amis (1949–2023) was born in Oxford, the son of Kingsley Amis, and established himself across a career of forty years as one of the central figures in postwar British fiction — a novelist of formidable technical invention, satirical range, and stylistic ambition whose influence on the generation that followed him is difficult to overstate. Money (1984) and London Fields (1989) are the novels on which his popular reputation rests; Time's Arrow , published in 1991 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is the one that best demonstrates what his intelligence could do when given a subject of commensurate magnitude. The Times named him one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945. He died in May 2023; signed copies of his work carry the significance of a posthumous signature from one of the most important British novelists of his generation. The novel is 168 pages long. Its subject is the H

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