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John Updike - The Afterlife and Other Stories

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Updike's 11th collection of short stories contains 22 evocative, well-crafted tales of aging men, and their wives, in whom the approach of death provokes painful insights and extraordinary behavior.
 

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The Afterlife

Date of Review:  Aug 19, 2008
The Bottom Line: An unfortunately failed collection of stories that have nothing to offer anyone who isn't old, cranky, arrogant, male, and hates women.
Review: Death walks quietly among the paragraphs of John Updike's short story collection, The Afterlife. Fathers, mothers, spouses, and sometimes even protagonists, are drawn, one and all, to death. Updike's bleak collection of short stories, published in...
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  Parini, Jay: "The medium of [Updike's] transactions is the famous Updike style: fluent to a fault, rich in metaphor, rising to exquisite heights in places, toppling elsewhere into preciousness and affectation....Indeed, John Updike has rarely written more affectingly, more from the center of his being. Several of these stories will, I suspect, enjoy the kind of afterlife granted to few writers in any time or place."

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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc (November 01, 1994)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.1 lbs.
ISBN: 9780679435839
 

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