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My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307271560
ISBN-139780307271563
eBay Product ID (ePID)70918015
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Father's Tears and Other Stories
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicPsychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-054376
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of ContentMorocco 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
SynopsisA sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: "Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a lifetime's happiness into one brimming moment of an old man's bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in "The Walk with Elizanne" and "The Road Home," restore their hero to youth's commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, "the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition." Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in "The Guardians," "The Laughter of the Gods," and "Kinderszenen." Love's fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of "Free," "Delicate Wives," "The Apparition," and "Outage.", John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel. "Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a lifetime's happiness into one brimming moment of an old man's bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in "The Walk with Elizanne" and "The Road Home," restore their hero to youth's commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, "the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition." Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in "The Guardians," "The Laughter of the Gods," and "Kinderszenen." Love's fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of "Free," "Delicate Wives," "The Apparition," and "Outage." In sum, American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11 finds reflection in these glittering pieces of observation, remembrance, and imagination.
LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4M9 2009
