John-updike Trust Me: Short Stories ISBN 13: 9780449214985

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Parents lead children into peril, a man loves his wife's twin, and a woman must administer her father's death in this collection of short stories exploring the theme of trust, both betrayed and fulfilled

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" Dazzling...We certainly can trust him -- we are in very good hands."
-- The New York Times


" It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work...and almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly."
-- The Washington Post Book World
" For thirty years, John Updike has been among our most clearsighted, hard-working, emotionally courageous, technically adept, playful, serious, and productive artists....Read him."
-- USA Today

"Dazzling...We certainly can trust him -- we are in very good hands."

-- The New York Times
"It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work...and almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly."

-- The Washington Post Book World

"For thirty years, John Updike has been among our most clearsighted, hard-working, emotionally courageous, technically adept, playful, serious, and productive artists....Read him."

-- USA Today

"The plainest of objects and events bloom in these stories as if they had at last found their proper climate. . . . I find myself searching for language to describe the very palpable pleasure that comes with experiencing in a writer authority and also humor and elegance and honesty and generosity of spirit."--Marilynne Robinson, "The New York Times Book Review"
"It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work. . . . And almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"Dazzling . . . We certainly can trust him--we are in very good hands."--"The New York Times"

"The plainest of objects and events bloom in these stories as if they had at last found their proper climate. . . . I find myself searching for language to describe the very palpable pleasure that comes with experiencing in a writer authority and also humor and elegance and honesty and generosity of spirit."--Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review

"It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work. . . . And almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly."--The Washington Post Book World

"Dazzling . . . We certainly can trust him--we are in very good hands."--The New York Times

About the Author:
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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  • PublisherFawcett
  • Publication date1990
  • ISBN 10 0449214982
  • ISBN 13 9780449214985
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