by John Updike · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140245059
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«The Afterlife and Other Stories» is John Updike's collection of short stories, published by Penguin in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Twenty-two stories about life after maturity: omniscient golf caddies, deaths of mothers and births of grandchildren. Near death gives these characters a luminous fragility; memory and perception transform the everyday, and trips to England, Ireland and Italy stir tensions between spouses, lovers and children.
The story «A Sandstone Farmhouse», included in the collection, won the O. Henry Award in 1991.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction who enjoy short stories and Updike's view of maturity and memory.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
