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--The New York Times
"If one trait can account for John Updike's staying power, it is the man's exquisite grasp of ordinary miracles....With his small mirages, his puddles left by both the heroic and the damned, Updike can turn the simple, misguided efforts of a man into a signature of song."
--The Boston Globe
"MARVELOUSLY MOVING...These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is."
--USA Today
"John Updike has rarely written more affectingly, more from the center of his being....This collection is about the passing of generations, and the way that passing leaves people marooned....Reviewing a novel of Vladimir Nabokov in 1964, Mr. Updike said, 'He writes prose the only way it should be written--that is, ecstatically.' That ecstasy is evident on every page of THE AFTERLIFE."
--The New York Times Book Review
"These are first-rate stories, thoughtful and wise."
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: slight shelf wear. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with the full number-string : 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 New in green cloth-covered boards with silver titles to spine. No inscriptions. Pages clean. In a near fine colour illustrated dust jacket that has not been price-clipped, showing publisher's original price of £14.99. All in all an excellent copy. The twenty-two stories in John Updike s eleventh collection explore life beyond middle age and find it to have its own wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to prescient sexual rumours, from losing mothers to gaining grandchildren. As death approaches, some of the ageing heroes find that life takes on a translucence and magical fragility, others that travel heightens perceptions and tensions. As is usual in Updike s fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave and houses have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK. Seller Inventory # ABE-1630504755990