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To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updike’s title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.” All twenty-two of the stories in this collection—John Updike’s eleventh, and his first in seven years—in various ways partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own particular wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to precinct sexual rumors, from the deaths of mothers and brothers-in-law to the births of grandchildren. As death approaches, life takes on, for some of these aging heroes, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misconception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Travel, whether to England or Ireland, Italy or the isles of Greece, heightens perceptions and tensions. As is usual in Mr. Updike’s fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave, and houses with their décor have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.
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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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- ÉditeurHamish Hamilton Ltd
- Date d'édition1995
- ISBN 10 024113501X
- ISBN 13 9780241135013
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages336
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The Afterlife: And Other Stories
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Hamish Hamilton
(1995)
ISBN 10 : 024113501X
ISBN 13 : 9780241135013
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: slight shelf wear. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with the full number-string : 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 New in green cloth-covered boards with silver titles to spine. No inscriptions. Pages clean. In a near fine colour illustrated dust jacket that has not been price-clipped, showing publisher's original price of £14.99. All in all an excellent copy. The twenty-two stories in John Updike s eleventh collection explore life beyond middle age and find it to have its own wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to prescient sexual rumours, from losing mothers to gaining grandchildren. As death approaches, some of the ageing heroes find that life takes on a translucence and magical fragility, others that travel heightens perceptions and tensions. As is usual in Updike s fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave and houses have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1630504755990
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