Volume 44, Number 19 · December 4, 1997
The Croatians Are Coming
By Robert Stone
Toward the End of Time
by John Updike
Knopf, 334 pp., $25.00
John Updike's latest novel, Toward the End of Time, describes the burdened crawl toward death of a Boston stockbroker with the evocative Yankee name of Ben Turnbull. Turnbull is 'semi-retired': he spends most of his time poking around his house and grounds on the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay. He is highly intelligent, cultivated, and thoughtful in an utterly self-absorbed way. It is 2020 AD; he is sixty-six years old and desperate.
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