My father's tears ; and other stories

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My father's tears ; and other stories

John Updike

(Penguin books)(Penguin fiction)

Penguin, 2010

  • : pbk

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My father's tears & others stories

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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

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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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Details

  • NCID
    BB02425883
  • ISBN
    • 9780141042596
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    292 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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