The Afterlife: And Other Stories by Updike, John

The Afterlife: And Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449912010)

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The Afterlife: And Other Stories by Updike, John

The Afterlife: And Other Stories

$16.00
The Afterlife: And Other Stories by Updike, John

The Afterlife: And Other Stories

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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"Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is."--USA Today

To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass." All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own exquisite dearness. As death approaches, existence takes on, for some of Updike's aging characters, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misperception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Here is a world where wonder stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0449912019
ISBN-13: 9780449912010
Publisher: Random House Group
Language: English
Published: 08/27/1996
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.50w x 0.94d
By John Updike
By John Updike
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. 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. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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