"QUINTESSENTIAL UPDIKE...These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions."
--The New York Times
"If one trait can account for John Updike's staying power, it is the man's exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles....With his small mirages, his puddles left by both the heroic and the damned, Updike can turn the simple, misguided efforts of a man into a signature of song."
--The Boston Globe
"MARVELOUSLY MOVING...These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is."
--USA Today
"John Updike has rarely written more affectingly, more from the center of his being....This collection is about the passing of generations, and the way that passing leaves people marooned....Reviewing a novel of Vladimir Nabokov in 1964, Mr. Updike said, 'He writes prose the only way it should be written--that is, ecstatically.' That ecstasy is evident on every page of THE AFTERLIFE."
--The New York Times Book Review
"These are first-rate stories, thoughtful and wise."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB
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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 prescient 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 misperception 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 decor have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.
John Updikewas the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including"The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, "and"Rabbit at Rest, "won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009."
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Condition: Muy bueno. : Sumérgete en la colección de cuentos 'The Afterlife and Other Stories' de John Updike, donde la vida más allá de la mediana edad se explora con asombro. A través de veintidós relatos, Updike ilumina las maravillas particulares de esta etapa, desde caddies de golf omniscientes hasta rumores sexuales, y desde la pérdida de seres queridos hasta el nacimiento de nietos. Con la muerte acercándose, la vida adquiere una fragilidad mágica para estos personajes, donde la memoria y la percepción se entrelazan para dar un nuevo significado a lo mundano. Los viajes a lugares como Inglaterra, Irlanda e Italia intensifican las percepciones y tensiones, mientras que las relaciones entre cónyuges, amantes e hijos revelan la persistencia de la inocencia y la posibilidad de nuevos comienzos. EAN: 9780140245059 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Afterlife and Other Stories Autor: John Updike Editorial: Penguin Idioma: en Páginas: 336 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-01-09-0e259814
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