World’s End: A Novel – T Coraghessan Boyle

Condition : Good.
Bloomsbury, 1996, Medium-format Paperback – Fiction – 456 pp. Previous Bookclub copy.

This multi-generational novel ranges over the history of the Hudson River Valley from the late seventeenth cenutry to the late 1960s with low humor, high seriousness, and magical, almost hallucinatory prose.

Walter Van Brunt, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, collides with his own historical roots when he crashes his motorcycle into a historical marker along the highway. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960’s back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940’s to the late seventeenth century, where the long-hidden secrets of three families.