Toward The End Of Time
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Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
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A darkly meditative work of literary fiction, Toward the End of Time chronicles a year in the life of Ben Turnbull, a retired Massachusetts investment manager navigating a near-future America devastated by a Sino-American war that has left the federal government in collapse. Updike presents Turnbull's journal entries with unflinching candor, weaving together his aging protagonist's obsessions with sex, death, mortality, and the indifferent rhythms of the natural world surrounding his coastal home. The novel argues, through Turnbull's often unlikable but intellectually restless voice, that the end of civilization merely strips away the illusions that mask the primal anxieties men carry throughout their lives. Updike's prose is characteristically lush and precise, grounding cosmic themes of entropy and time in the acutely observed details of a single, flawed consciousness. Ambitious and unsettling, the work stands as one of Updike's most philosophically charged novels, demanding readers confront the uncomfortable terrain between desire and decay.
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Edition: bomc -
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A darkly meditative work of literary fiction, Toward the End of Time chronicles a year in the life of Ben Turnbull, a retired Massachusetts investment manager navigating a near-future America devastated by a Sino-American war that has left the federal government in collapse. Updike presents Turnbull's journal entries with unflinching candor, weaving together his aging protagonist's obsessions with sex, death, mortality, and the indifferent rhythms of the natural world surrounding his coastal home. The novel argues, through Turnbull's often unlikable but intellectually restless voice, that the end of civilization merely strips away the illusions that mask the primal anxieties men carry throughout their lives. Updike's prose is characteristically lush and precise, grounding cosmic themes of entropy and time in the acutely observed details of a single, flawed consciousness. Ambitious and unsettling, the work stands as one of Updike's most philosophically charged novels, demanding readers confront the uncomfortable terrain between desire and decay.
