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This epic novel is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three time periods: the late 17th century, the 1940s and the 1960s. It follows the interwoven destinies of three families (one Indian family and two Dutch settler families) during this time period. It begins with Walter Van Brunt, a descendant of Dutch yeomen, whose fondness for drugs and alcohol leads to a motorcycle accident in which he loses a foot. This precipitates two journeys: Walter's, as he searches for his lost father, who years before had deserted friends, son and wife; and ours, as we are drawn back through the centuries, and the secrets of the Van Brunts, the Van Warts and the Mohonks are at last revealed. The author has published four previous works of fiction.

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'World's End is a book to treasure and savour' The Times 'World's End gives Boyle lots of room to display his manic gift for language, his love of exaggeration and grand guignol effects, his ability to work all sorts of magical variations on literature and history ... T.C. Boyle has emerged as one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation' New York Times 'In rich and sensuous prose, studded like a mace with knobs of black humour, Boyle invokes the colonial past ... Not since Thomas Pynchon has any fresh American writer so cunningly lit the fuses of history so that they detonate in time recently past' The Times 'World's End is set in New York's Hudson Valley in three well-researched time periods - the seventeenth-century, the 1940s and the 1960s - but rapidly takes off from its launchpad and hurls itself into a garrulous world of exaggeration, manic invention and linguistic aerobatics' Observer
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T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.

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  • PublisherMacmillan
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 0333472527
  • ISBN 13 9780333472521
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages414
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