My Father's Tears and Other Stories
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In ''Fiftieth'' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, ''What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now being old, living next to death.'' In the story ''The Full Glass'' the protagonist describes som...
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In ''Fiftieth'' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, ''What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now being old, living next to death.'' In the story ''The Full Glass'' the protagonist describes som...
