Toward the End of Time - Rilegato

Updike, John

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ISBN 10: 0375400060 ISBN 13: 9780375400063

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Riassunto

Ben Turnbull, a retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020, in a country decimated by a U.S.-China war, chronicles his life in his journals over the course of a year, finding his personal history merging into alternative identities throughout history and the future. 75,000 first printing. BOMC Main. Tour.

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Recensione:

“John Updike is a stylist of the highest order, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience.”—Chicago Tribune
 
“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
 
“Toward the End of Time has a force that gets under your skin.”—Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books

L'autore:

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, to which he has contributed poems, short stories, essays, and book reviews. Since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0375400060
• ISBN 13: 9780375400063
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 334