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RO60061963. TOWARD THE END OF TIME. 1998. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 334 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
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"UPDIKE IS ONE OF OUR GREAT ARTISTS".
-- The Washington Post Book World
"John Updike is a stylist of the highest order, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience."--Chicago Tribune
"A book aimed not to resolve but to arouse a reader's wonder . . . Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chilly backdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eye for detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen."--The Miami Herald
"Toward the End of Time has a force that gets under your skin."--Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books
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Ben Turnbull, the hero of John Updike's eighteenth novel, is a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. The dollar has been locally replaced by Massachusetts scrip; instead of taxes, one pays protection money to competing racketeers. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of a year, retains many of its accustomed comforts, as supervised by his vibrant wife, Gloria. He plays golf; he pays visits to his five children and ten grandchildren. Something of a science buff, he finds his personal history caught up in the disjunctions and vagaries of the "many-worlds" hypothesis derived from the indeterminacy of quantum theory. His identity branches into variants extending back through history and ahead in the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-enshrouded existence move toward the end of time.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140271422
- ISBN 13 9780140271423
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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