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001 2046026
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008 970303s1997 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 97005167
020 $a0375400060 (cloth)
035 $a(OCoLC)36528143
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm36528143
035 $9AMS6023CU
035 $a(NNC)2046026
035 $a2046026
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPS3571.P4$bT69 1997
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aUpdike, John.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018616
245 10 $aToward the end of time /$ca novel by John Updike.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c1997.
263 $a9710
300 $a334 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aBen 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.
520 8 $aNevertheless, 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.
520 8 $aHis 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.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3571.P4$iT69 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPS3571.P4$iT69 1997