Toward the End of Time by Updike, John

Toward the End of Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449000410)

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Toward the End of Time by Updike, John

Toward the End of Time

$16.00
Toward the End of Time by Updike, John

Toward the End of Time

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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Set in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasy depicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, and its natural resources tainted. The hero is Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor, who, like Thoreau, sticks close to home and traces the course of one Massachusetts year in his journal. Something of a science buff, he finds that his disrupted personal history has been warped by the disjunctions and vagaries of the "many-worlds" hypothesis derived from the indeterminacy of quantum theory. His identity branches into variants extending back through the past and forward into the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-haunted existence move toward the end of time.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0449000419
ISBN-13: 9780449000410
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 08/25/1998
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/27/1998 pg. 32
By John Updike
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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