Description
In a near-future America shattered by war and scarcity, a retired financier records his days in a journal that feels both intimate and unreliable—an account of comfort amid collapse that gradually turns stranger, darker, and more surreal. As the world around him frays, his narrative slips between the present and distant echoes of ancient Egypt, even as virtual realities and sudden “magic” intrude on ordinary life. With Updike’s signature lyrical intelligence and sharp, often unsettling wit, the book explores moral compromise, aging, desire, and the ways people rationalize their own survival when history seems to be ending. Part science fiction, part magic realism, and wholly journal-like in its confessional tone, it asks what remains of a self when time, society, and meaning all begin to dissolve.
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ebook
Random House Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2009
353 pages
ISBN: 9780307424686
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First Published
1997
Language
eng
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