MY FATHER'S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES

John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest s hort-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 al ive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life/ domestic duplicity/ travel/ aging rituals/ and the transience of existence. This is ...[Read more]