My father's tears ; and other stories
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My father's tears ; and other stories
（Penguin books）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin, 2010
- : pbk
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My father's tears & others stories
Available at 2 libraries
Contents of Works
- Morocco
- Personal archaeology
- Free
- The walk with Elizanne
- The guardians
- The laughter of the gods
- Varieties of religious experience
- Spanish prelude to a second marriage
- Delicate wives
- The accelerating expansion of the universe
- German lessons
- The road home
- My father's tears
- Kinderszenen
- The apparition
- Blue light
- Outage
- The full glass
Description and Table of Contents
Description
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.
'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent that burnt brightly goes out in a blaze of brilliance' Sunday Times
'A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; "domestic duplicity"; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks' Metro
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