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      By Updike, John, 1932-
       1988., Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: Fic Upd   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library
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      By Updike, John, 1932-
       1997., Knopf Call No: Fic Upd   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: 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 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.