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Availability: Out of stock
Cover: Soft
Condition: Secong hand
Barcode: 9780140245066
Trade code: 49112
ISBN: 0140245065
Category: Fiction All Books

John Updike | "The Afterlife"

16.90 лв.
This product is second hand.
  • Copyright: © John Updike, 1994

    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.


    "Quintessential Updike... These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

    • Language: English
    • Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
    • Pages: 315
    • Cover: softcover
    • First published: 1994
    • This edition published: 1995