"[A] novel that seems to have been written with the term 'tour de force' in mind. . . . A brilliant job."
–Village Voice Literary Supplement "A breakthrough . . . etched with acid irony and trickery . . . To submit to [Amis's] comic tweaking and tickling is to abet the inevitable logic of his assault on our senses. . . .
Time's Arrow, his tautest and sleekest novel yet, is also his most wide-angled and farsighted. . . . A hard look at our dark age through glittering alien eyes."
–Boston Phoenix Literary Section "A brilliantly imaginative feat."
–Mirabella "Audacious, utterly poised and almost moving . . . the book's devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's
A Modest Proposal. It is . . . Amis's finest achievement to date."
–Financial Times "Amis can write prose that is spikily, nervously elegant, full of urgency and surprise."
–New York "Prodigious cleverness. . . . A clever book."
–Vogue "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
