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100	1		_aUpdike, John. _9130512
245	1	0	_aToward the end of time / _cJohn Updike
260			_aNew York : _bFawcett, _c1997
300			_a334 p. ; _c21 cm
520		0	_aBen 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 his journal entries over the course of a year, retains many of its accustomed comforts, as supervised by his vibrant wife, Gloria. He plays golf; he pays visits to his five children and ten grandchildren. Something of a science buff, he finds his personal history caught up in the disjunctions and vagaries of the "many-worlds" hypothesis derived from the indeterminacy of quantum theory. His identity branches into variants extending back through history and ahead in the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-enshrouded existence move toward the end of time.
650		0	_aQuantum theory _vFiction. _9130515
650		0	_aMan-woman relationships _vFiction. _9130516
651		0	_aMassachusetts _vFiction. _9130517
655		7	_aScience fiction. _2gsafd _9130518
852			_y06-29-2003
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