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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
November 1, 1994
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780679435839
ISBN-10
0679435832
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$29.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A new anthology of short fiction features twenty-two diverse tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age. 30,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. BOMC Alt.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updikeâs title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: âA miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.â All twenty-two of the stories in this collectionâJohn Updikeâs eleventh, and his first in seven yearsâin various ways partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own particular wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to precinct sexual rumors, from the deaths of mothers and brothers-in-law to the births of grandchildren. As death approaches, life takes on, for some of these aging heroes, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misconception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Travel, whether to England or Ireland, Italy or the isles of Greece, heightens perceptions and tensions. As is usual in Mr. Updikeâs fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave, and houses with their décor have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.
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Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (November 1, 1994)
9780679435839 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $29.95
About: An anthology of short fiction features twenty-two tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age
About: An anthology of short fiction features twenty-two tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age
Paperback
from Random House Inc (August 1, 1996)
9780449912010 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $16.00
from Crest (November 1, 1995)
9780449223918 | details & prices | 4.00 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $6.99
About: An anthology of short fiction features twenty-two tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age
About: An anthology of short fiction features twenty-two tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age
Cassette/Spoken Word
Unabridged edition from Random House (November 1, 1994)
9780679436577 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Anthology of short fiction features twenty-two diverse tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age.
About: Anthology of short fiction features twenty-two diverse tales that explore the magical fragility, memory, nostalgia, and translucent quality of life beyond middle age.
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