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Toward the End of Time
Toward the End of Time
Author: John Updike
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 prote...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140271430
ISBN-10: 0140271430
Publication Date: 7/1/1999
Pages: 352
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Good tale of a potential future, set in 2020, by a master writer.
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Typical Updike. Depressing, but captivating prose.


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