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Toward The End Of Time
de John Updike
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375400060
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400063
- Librería
-
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Sobre este artículo
Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine. Not Ex-Library Copy. Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.Nice Copy.Binding Is Solid. Text Unmarked.Not Ex-Library Copy.Stated First Edition, First Printing.
Sinopsis
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.
Reseñas
El Dec 21 2010, Btbkc69 dijo:
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Box 214
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 012627
- Título
- Toward The End Of Time
- Autor
- John Updike
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375400060
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400063
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1997
Términos de venta
Box 214
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