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J. Updike, Toward the End of Time First Paperback Edition ed. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1998. Added by: Clea von Chamier-Waite (08/08/2025, 05:54) |
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| Resource type: Book ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-449-00041-0 BibTeX citation key: anon1998 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Creators: Updike Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
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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.
Added by: Clea von Chamier-Waite |