World's End is a 1987 historical fiction novel by T. C. Boyle. The novel, characterized by dark satire, tells the story of several generations of families in the Hudson River Valley. It was the winner of the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction.
Haunted by his familyâÂÂs traitorous legacy and dazed by pot, cheap wine, sex, and a disturbingly real brush with ancestral ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to crash headlong into history.
This journey will push him to search for his missing father and carry the story deep into the Hudson River ValleyâÂÂs past, moving from the 1960s to the anticommunist unrest of the 1940s, and finally to the late seventeenth century, where long-buried secrets of three intertwined families - the noble Van Warts, the Mohonk people, and WalterâÂÂs own Van Brunt ancestors - come to light.
World's End by T. C. Boyle
The book was referenced in the popular American sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in the season 5 episode "Girls Vs. Suits".