My Father's Tears

Resumen del libro

The final work of fiction by American literary legend, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and National Book Award recipient John Updike, reissued in a gorgeous new package, using the all-new, definitive text.

Updike has long been heralded as the ultimate chronicler of typical American life, and his final collection follows suit-fittingly showing characters edging toward the ends of their lives. Old friends reconnect at a class reunion, wondering, "What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now being old, living next to death." A grandfather, visiting his daughter, watches the towers of the World Trade Center fall, and his view of a God is forever altered. And in the title story, the narrator remembers his own father crying as he embarked on the next chapter of his life so long ago. In these memorable stories, Updike continues giving words to what is so often left unsaid. He is at once witty, devastatingly observant, touching-and, of course, a consummate storyteller. This is a collection that will long be admired and cherished as a triumphant farewell.

Biografía del autor

John Updike (Shillington, Pennsylvania, 1932-Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 2009) es uno de los grandes maestros de la narrativa norteamericana contemporánea, autor de una vasta obra que abarca poesía y ensayo, narración breve y novela. Galardonado en dos ocasiones con el Premio Pulitzer (1982 y 1991) y en una con el American Book Award (1982), se le considera uno de los más ácidos cronistas de la sociedad estadounidense de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Tusquets Editores ha publicado un total de diecinueve obras de este autor, entre ellas Un libro de Bech, el primer título de la trilogía protagonizada por el mordaz y tierno alter ego apenas disimulado del propio Updike. En esta segunda entrega, Bech trastea por la vida como bien puede, cargado de miedos y dudas, pero también de un sentido del humor que lo hace todo más llevadero. Un libro para reírse de nuestras pequeñas " o grandes" miserias y esperanzas, escrito con la lucidez de un genio de la literatura contemporánea.