Toward the End of Time - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375400060 ISBN 13: 9780375400063

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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Toward the end of Time. 8vo. pp. 334. . Ottimo (Fine). . Prima edizione (First Edition). [Tartarus, 2007].

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Ben Turnbull, a retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020, in a country decimated by a U.S.-China war, chronicles his life in his journals over the course of a year, finding his personal history merging into alternative identities throughout history and the future. 75,000 first printing. BOMC Main. Tour.

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, 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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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0375400060
• ISBN 13: 9780375400063
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334