Seek My Face

Updike, John; John Updike

ISBN 10: 0375414908 / ISBN 13: 9780375414909

Published by A Borzoi Book/Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Publishers, New York, 2002

About this Item

276 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Seller Inventory # 3iiiBf0013

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seek My Face
• Publisher: A Borzoi Book/Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375414908
• ISBN 13: 9780375414909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Nicholas M. Raynolds (Jacket Painting); Geoff Spear (Jacket Photo); Chip Kidd (Jacket Design); Martha Updike (Author Photo)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel

About this title

Synopsis

A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. • “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time

On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, the interviewer and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001.

About the Author

JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.