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Old Girlfriends: Stories (Hardcover)

By: David Updike (Author)

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In this brilliantly told short story collection, David Updike portrays the multi-faceted nature of love, capturing the very singular nature of the human heart. From a father's painful realization his son has discovered the dark heart of racism still beats, to a quiet love affair that needs an audience to bloom, to the bumblings of a professor struck with rapture for his student, Updike portrays the intricacies of loving someone with candor and sincerity. He writes in the piece, "Kind of Love," "There were not different "kinds "of love, the argument seemed to go, but just one great and universal love, of which all the others were fragments, diffractions, variations on a theme..." Drifting from the unrequited to the secretive, the familial to the first poetic moments, this soulful collection leaves no avenue of expression untouched.

A volume of short works explores a theme of the myriad nuances of love and includes such pieces as the tale of a father's painful realization of his son's racist beliefs, the story of a quiet affair that blooms upon recognition, and the efforts of a bumbling professor to work through his infatuation for a student. 20,000 first printing.

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This poignant collection of short stories which eloquently pierce the psychological secrets of a series of men who are exploring variations of love would likely draw comparisons to John Updike, even if the author was not his son. In the title story, a man named Trevor uses his therapist to test his theories about women, as they analyze his previous failed relationships for clues on how to make his current romance succeed. Another story centers on a man's desperate and somewhat pathetic attempts to ditch his family so that he can attend church with his mistress. Updike's memorable characters are prone to surprising behavior which becomes more and more genuine as the hidden motivation behind them is gradually revealed.

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