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Bezig met laden... De tranen van mijn vader laatste verhalen (2009)door John Updike
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 18 stories In his postscript for Updike in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik writes that Updike was one of the few American writers to get himself expressed fully, and the reader gets the sense from his final collection of short stories that Updike drew heavily from his experience as an elderly man of letters reflecting back on a life of relationships. If these stories are the last records of his life memories, you have to marvel at the steady competence of a writer who is both so personal expressive but also has such an eye for detail and an ear for language. Nothing in Updike's style or content is earth-shattering, but his quiet mastery of the form gives his stories a surprising depth and warmth.
There's plenty here for longtime fans. Olinger, the post-industrial Pennsylvania town that appears in many of his books, is again prominent, and Updike's trademark wandering sentences, which, like Wordsworth's poetry, seem to go in two directions at once, are everywhere. But My Father's Tears also has a quality, sometimes found in final books, of being filled with light and wonderment. It's not only a fitting final book, but a joyous one. Bevat
De verhalen spelen zich vooral af in het Amerika van de buitenwijken in de jaren tussen de Grote Depressie en het heden. De grote thema's zijn ouderdom, herinneringen, verloren liefdes en religie. Updike zoekt in zijn personages een kern van menselijkheid en de schoonheid van levensbepalende momenten. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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