My Father's Tears and Other Stories

John Updike

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Penguin
12 August 2010

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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 %%%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

By: John Updike
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780141042596
ISBN 10: 0141042591
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 12 August 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania, and died in January 2009. 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 after 1957 lived in Massachusetts until his death. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.

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