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My father's tears and other stories

Couverture du livre « My father's tears and other stories » de John Updike aux éditions Adult Pbs
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  • Editeur : Adult Pbs
  • EAN : 9780141042596
  • Série : (-)
  • Support : Papier
Résumé:

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... Voir plus

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

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