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- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- ISBN: 1423397959
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113307084
- Release Date: June 2, 2009
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "My Fathers Tears & Other Stories" by John Updike to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "My Fathers Tears & Other Stories"Browse more products related to "John Updike"Review"MY FATHER'S TEARS is a self-conscious salute to a grand career of imagining and gorgeously describing our America, along with a wink of gratitude to those readers who have shared the journey." "Like many of [Updike's] stories over the decades, the best of these last ones don't read like 'stories' with a beginning, middle, and rousing end, but like reflective essays that explore a feeling, an inclination, in the direction of a clarifying moment." "[The] testimony of an individual and recollective consciousness as t relives and reviews the matter of a lifetime and grapples with the effects of aging, disease, decline and death is the focus of Updike's final collection of new fiction....Among all the writers of our time, he was the most gifted in illuminating the phenomenological world." "Mr. Updike writes in these stories and poems with the quiet assurance of someone in complete control of his craft....[H]e sticks here to what he does best: memorializing the mundane, the ordinary joys and sorrows and confusions of suburban middle class life, the quiet ticktock of human life as the 20th century unfurled..." "[T]he ache of knowing and celebrating how we've lived, what it all may mean and where we're going give this final testament a beauty and gravity that crown a brilliant, enduring life's work and legacy." (starred review) "September songs from an American master....These marvelously wrought stories should not be regarded as a career summation, but, rather, as evidence of a career interrupted....[S]avor this swan song...to be reminded of how splendid a writer Updike was." (starred review) Publisher's noteJohn 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. AnnotationJohn Updike's first collection of short stories in nearly a decade will unfortunately also be his last completed new work to be published. These compelling tales serve as a fitting finale to his legendary career, but they serve as much more than a mere sentimental remembrance of a once-great writer, as Updike effortlessly weaves vibrant ideas into sentences which disguise wisdom as simple observation. Many of the subjects are appropriately autumnal, as aging men confront a present time and place that seems out of sorts with their memories of youth. In "Morocco," a man remembers a harrowing trip when he and his family were alienated in the title country, unable to discern between genuine threats and their own xenophobic paranoia. In the book's title story, a young man sees that his identity is composed solely of an endless series of agreements and disagreements with his father's way of life, a realization that comes to him refracted through his memory of seeing his father cry for the first and only time. This collection assures that, as he passes from presence into memory, John Updike will forever remain a relevant and revelatory writer. If You Enjoy "My Fathers Tears & Other Stories (CD)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "My Fathers Tears & Other Stories (CD)" by John Updike (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Romance - Regency Bestsellers
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