My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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 chec…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-27156-3
- EAN: 9780307271563
- Produktnummer: 4490191
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Über den Autor
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than sixty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His books have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Howells Medal, among other honors. He died in January 2009.
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