Toward the End of Time

John Updike

Original title: Toward the end of time

earliest edition we have, 1997 Hamish Hamilton, 1998 334 pages

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...

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Toward the End of Time ebook · 2009 · Random House Publishing Group · 338 pages · 9780307424686
Toward the end of time edition · 1998 · Hamish Hamilton · 334 pages
Toward the end of time edition · 1998 · Fawcett Columbine · 334 pages
Toward the end of time edition · 1997 · Knopf · 334 pages

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