Seek My Face - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345460863 ISBN 13: 9780345460868

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2003

Synopsis

During an interview with a New York writer, seventy-nine-year-old artist Hope Chafetz describes her eventful life and her integral place in the saga of postwar American art, as the evolving relationship between the interviewer and subject subtly evolves in and out of the roles of mother and daughter, patient and therapist, prey and predator. Reprint.

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Review:

A brief novel of deep feeling . . . What you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went through the trouble of learning to read. Time
The premise of Seek My Face is clean and powerful, like a canvas by Barnett Newman. . . . Swirled over [it] is John Updike s superabundant prose, dazzling strings of looping sentences that wrap these two women in glittering constellations of words. The New York Observer

A rewarding new novel from our reigning master of surprise, the last sequence of which is surpassing in its beauty. San Francisco Chronicle"

"A brief novel of deep feeling . . . What you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went through the trouble of learning to read."--Time

"The premise of Seek My Face is clean and powerful, like a canvas by Barnett Newman. . . . Swirled over [it] is John Updike's superabundant prose, dazzling strings of looping sentences that wrap these two women in glittering constellations of words."--The New York Observer

"A rewarding new novel from our reigning master of surprise, the last sequence of which is surpassing in its beauty."--San Francisco Chronicle

From the Back Cover:

John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short 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

'Modern American fiction in its near-perfect state' Observer

'A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; "domestic duplicity"; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks' Metro

'A fine swansong, elegiac and uplifting . . . displays Updike's mastery of the form' Tatler

'So superbly skilful, effortlessly able to delineate the sweep of a lifetime in a few pages . . . the stories are tidy to a fault, clicking into place as they end' Evening Standard

'Updike's achievement remains immortal' Martin Amis, Guardian

'Beguiling' Simon Schama, Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345460863
• ISBN 13: 9780345460868
• Binding: Paperback