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Toward the End of Time - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Updike, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375400060
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400063
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0375400060 . A beautiful first printing of the first trade edition, following a private publication by The Franklin Library. Fine condition in equally unblemished dustjacket. Signed by author John Updike directly on the title page. De Bellis Broomfield A164b; John Updike's journal of 66-year-old Ben Turnbull who reflects about the onset of old age and his dwindling sex life in 2020, following the Sino-American War which the USA lost. He also attempts to cope with a changed America, in which Federal and State bureaucracy and law enforcement have disappeared to be replaced by gangs running protection rackets; 8vo; [x], 334, [8] pages; Signed by Author .
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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- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29874
- Title
- Toward the End of Time - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Updike, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375400060
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400063
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Updike, John;
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