John Updike: The Afterlife | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780449912010 | The Afterlife | And Other Stories | John Updike | Taschenbuch | 1996

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Beschreibung

To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass." All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own exquisite dearness. As death approaches, existence takes on, for some of Updike's aging characters, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misperception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Here is a world where wonder stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.

Über den Autor

John Updike

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1996
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780449912010
ISBN-10:	0449912019
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Updike, John
Hersteller:	Random House Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	210 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	John Updike
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.08.1996
Gewicht:	0,462 kg