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.
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