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John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.
'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent that burnt brightly goes out in a blaze of brilliance' Sunday Times
'A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; "domestic duplicity"; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks' Metro
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short story writer of his generation.
'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent that burnt brightly goes out in a blaze of brilliance' Sunday Times
'Modern American fiction in its near-perfect state' Observer
'A haunting valedictory alive with characteristic preoccupations: small-town life; "domestic duplicity"; travel; aging rituals; and the transience of existence. This is a collection filled with nuanced observations, descriptive flair and sentences that stop you in your tracks' Metro
'A fine swansong, elegiac and uplifting . . . displays Updike's mastery of the form' Tatler
'So superbly skilful, effortlessly able to delineate the sweep of a lifetime in a few pages . . . the stories are tidy to a fault, clicking into place as they end' Evening Standard
'Updike's achievement remains immortal' Martin Amis, Guardian
'Beguiling' Simon Schama, Financial Times
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