My Father's Tears And Other Stories

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Alfred A Kopf
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 292 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: John Updikes first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Fathers 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 lifetimes happiness into one brimming moment of an old mans bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in The Walk with Elizanne� and The Road Home,� restore their hero to youths 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.� Loves 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.

ISBN: 9780307271563