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Toward the End of Time

โœ Scribed by John Updike

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks
Year
2012;2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
229 KB
Edition
Random House Trade paperback edition
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

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 counselor, who, like Thoreau, sticks close to home and traces the course of one Massachusetts year in his journal. Something of a science buff, he finds that his disrupted personal history has been warped by the disjunctions and vagaries of the "many-worlds" hypothesis derived from the indeterminacy of quantum theory. His identity branches into variants extending back through the past and forward into the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-haunted existence move toward the end of time.

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