Toward The End Of Time

In this late novel by a major American novelist, an aging former investment manager lives in coastal Massachusetts in a near-future America unsettled by a limited nuclear war and shifting global power. As society frays at the edges, he retreats into memories, erotic longings, and uneasy reflections on his marriages, children, and neighbors. The book blends domestic realism with speculative elements, using the protagonist’s ruminations to explore mortality, time, desire, faith, and the persistence of history even as the world seems to wind down. Meditative, provocative, and elegiac, it will appeal to readers drawn to character-driven fiction that confronts aging and the end of an era with intelligence and candor.