Toward the End of Time

✍ John Updike 📂 Fiction 📅 1998;2014 🏛 Random House, Inc.;Random House Trade Paperbacks 🌐 English ⚖ 260 KB 👁 1 views

SUMMARY: JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience." --Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but the wand

Toward the End of Time

✍ John Updike 📂 Fiction 📅 1997;2014 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade P 🌐 en-US ⚖ 240 KB

A journal by an aging banker in which he reflects on subjects ranging from the decline of civilizations to the many-universes theory. The year is 2020 and America is in chaos following a nuclear war with China.;The Deer -- The Dollhouse -- The Deal -- The Deaths -- The Dahlia.

Toward the End of Time

✍ John Updike 📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 en-US ⚖ 243 KB

SUMMARY: JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience." --Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but the wand

Toward the End of Time

✍ John Updike 📂 Fiction 📅 1997;2014 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade P 🌐 en-US ⚖ 240 KB

A journal by an aging banker in which he reflects on subjects ranging from the decline of civilizations to the many-universes theory. The year is 2020 and America is in chaos following a nuclear war with China.;The Deer -- The Dollhouse -- The Deal -- The Deaths -- The Dahlia.

Toward the End of Time

✍ John Updike 📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 260 KB

SUMMARY: JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience." --Chicago Tribune Toward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but the wand

Toward the End of Time

✍ John Updike 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2014 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade P 🌐 en-US ⚖ 229 KB

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 counselo

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