Book #108335

Mortal Term

John Penn

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: New York: Scribner's, 1985.

Price: $50.00



The novel Mortal Term is set in a future world where the aging process has been solved and people can live to be over one hundred years old. The protagonist, John, is a 103-year-old man who has been living in the same home for the past seventy years. John is a loner who enjoys reading old books and watching old movies. One day, John is visited by a young woman named Alice who tells him that she is from the future and that he is going to die soon. John is skeptical at first, but decides to go along with Alice's plan. Alice takes John to a secret place where she reveals that the aging process has been solved and that he is actually 100 years old. John is shocked by this information and decides to return home.; 8vo; $7.50.