TOWARD THE END OF TIME
by Updike, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
The Franklin Library, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. SIGNED by author John Updike, for the Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society. Rich rust colored leather binding with gold flower design on both front and back boards. Title on decorated spine in gold between raised leather bands. Marbled paste-downs and endpapers are spotless. Satin ribbon marker. Nice tight binding.
Synopsis
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.From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
On Dec 21 2010, Btbkc69 said:
An exceptional display of refined talent, Updike, though often showing off, puts you in the skin, as it were and introduces much of the past in the future. The domestic insights are a bispectral blend of poignance and comedy. My humble opinion. btb
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- Bookseller
- Koster's Collectible Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- INVENT019365I
- Title
- TOWARD THE END OF TIME
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1997
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