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Updike, John : Toward the End of Time
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JOHN UPDIKE IS A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience. --Chicago TribuneToward the End of Time is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but the wanderings of his wits. . . . So what if he jumps from a United States in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China, to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if characters appear and disappear like phantoms in a dream? . . . Turnbulls journal is like Walden gone haywire. . . . If Bens ruthlessness is evenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence; it falls on every scene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerie ambiance.--The New York Times Book Review A BOOK AIMED NOT TO RESOLVE BUT TO AROUSE A READER'S WONDER . . . Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chilly backdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eye for detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen.--The Miami Herald WONDERFUL RUSHES OF NEAR-MELVILLEAN PROSE . . . Toward the End of Time has a force that gets under your skin.--New York Review of Books A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
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category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > |
category: | Books > Literature > Novel > |
publisher: | Fawcett Columbine, 1996 |
item number / ISBN: | 9780449000410 |
binding: | paperback |
pages: | 334 |
language: | English |