My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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"So frei, wie etwas nur sein kann"
John Updikes letzte Erzählungen
Von der Weltwirtschaftskrise der 30er bis zu den Nachwehen des elften September, vom ländlichen Alton bis ins ferne Indien spannt sich der Bogen eines ganzen Menschenlebens. In seinen nachgelassenen Erzählungen erweist John Updike sich ein letztes Mal und einmal mehr als "Meister der unangestrengten Bewegung" (Ian McEwan), als "ein Genie der Gegenwartsentschlüsselung in Geschichten" (Die Welt).

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

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

27. Mai 2010

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

304

Autor/Autorin

John Updike

Verlag/Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

281 g

Größe (L/B/H)

196/130/30 mm

ISBN

9780141042596

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Portrait

John Updike

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993 brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

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