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008			092909s2009 nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9780307271563
050	0	0	_aPS3571.P4 _bM9 2009
082	0	0	_aSC UPD
100	1		_aUpdike, John _d(1932-2009)
245	1	0	_aMy father's tears and other stories _c/ by John Updike
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2009.
300			_a292 p. _c; 21 cm.
500			_a"A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
505	0	0	_aMorocco -- Personal archaeology -- Free -- The walk with Elizanne -- The guardians -- The laughter of the gods -- Varieties of religious experience -- Spanish prelude to a second marriage -- Delicate wives -- The accelerating expansion of the universe -- German lessons -- The road home -- My father's tears -- Kinderszenen -- The apparition -- Blue light -- Outage -- The full glass
520			_aJohn Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel. "Personal Archaeology" considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and "The Full Glass" distills a lifetime's happiness into one brimming moment of an old man's bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in "The Walk with Elizanne" and "The Road Home" restore their hero to youth's commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, "the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition." Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in "The Guardians," "The Laughter of the Gods," and "Kinderszenen." Love's fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of "Free," "Delicate Wives," "The Apparition," and "Outage." In sum, American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11 finds reflection in these glittering pieces of observation, remembrance, and imagination.
655		7	_aShort stories
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