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John Updike The Afterlife (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Afterlife : and Other Stories
- Publication Name
- The Afterlife
- Title
- The Afterlife
- Subtitle
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0449912019
- EAN
- 9780449912010
- ISBN
- 9780449912010
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 1996
- Release Date
- 27/08/1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Topic
- Psychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0449912019
ISBN-13
9780449912010
eBay Product ID (ePID)
805730
Product Key Features
Book Title
Afterlife : and Other Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
9 Oz
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"Quintessential Updike....These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions." -- The New York Times "If one trait can account for John Updike's staying power. it is the man's exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles....With his small mirages, his puddles left by both the heroic and the damned, Updike can turn the simple, misguided efforts of a man into a signature of song." -- The Boston Globe "Marvelously Moving...these tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is." -- USA Today "John Updike has rarely written more affectingly, more from the center of his being....This collection is about the passing of generations, and the way that passing leaves people marooned.... Reviewing a novel of Vladimir Nabokov in 1964, Mr. Updike said, 'He writes prose the only way it should be written -- that is, ecstatically.' That ecstasy is evident on every page of The Afterlife." -- The New York Times Book Review "These are first-rate stories, thoughtful and wise." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer From the Trade Paperback edition., "Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is."- USA Today "Quintessential Updike . . . These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "If one trait can account for John Updike's staying power, it is the man's exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles. . . . With his small mirages, his puddles left by both the heroic and the damned, Updike can turn the simple, misguided efforts of a man into a signature of song."- The Boston Globe, "Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is."-- USA Today "Quintessential Updike . . . These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "If one trait can account for John Updike's staying power, it is the man's exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles. . . . With his small mirages, his puddles left by both the heroic and the damned, Updike can turn the simple, misguided efforts of a man into a signature of song."-- The Boston Globe
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Lccn
96-096621
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Dewey Edition
20
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