by JohnUpdike (Author)
Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them, leaving each other, loving each other, often at the same time. Here is passion ignited and quenched, absurd hope, ineffectual regret. Here is life as we live it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career . . .
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 27 Oct 1988
ISBN 10: 0140113630
ISBN 13: 9780140113631
It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work...and almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly.
-- The Washington Post Book World
For thirty years, John Updike has been among our most clearsighted, hard-working, emotionally courageous, technically adept, playful, serious, and productive artists....Read him.
-- USA Today
It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work...and almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly.
-- The Washington Post Book World
For thirty years, John Updike has been among our most clearsighted, hard-working, emotionally courageous, technically adept, playful, serious, and productive artists....Read him.
-- USA Today