Trust Me: Short Stories by Updike, John

Trust Me: Short Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449912171)

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Format: Paperback
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Trust Me: Short Stories by Updike, John

Trust Me: Short Stories

$16.00
Trust Me: Short Stories by Updike, John

Trust Me: Short Stories

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege his aging heroes and heroines. One man loves his wife's twin, and several men love the imagined bliss of their pasts; one woman takes an impotent lover, and another must administer her father's death. Bourgeois comforts and youthful convictions are tenderly seen as certain to erode: "Man," as one of these stories concludes, "was not meant to abide in paradise."

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0449912175
ISBN-13: 9780449912171
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 08/27/1996
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 02/13/2009 pg. 60
By John Updike
By John Updike
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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