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The Afterlife: And Other Stories

The Afterlife: And Other Stories

Updike, John

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0449912019
ISBN13: 9780449912010
Publisher: Random House Group
Published: Aug 27 1996
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is.--USA Today

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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