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".
UPDIKE JOHN
1932-2009 Es uno de los grandes maestros de la literatura norteamericana contemporánea, autor de ensayos, poesía, cuentos y novelas. Su prolífica obra narrativa, en la que sobresalen obras como En torno a la granja 1965 , Parejas 1968 , Gertrudis y Claudio 2000 , Mujeres 2004 y la serie de novelas protagonizadas por Harry «Conejo» Angstrom, es una crónica ácida y exhaustiva de la sociedad estadounidense de la segunda mitad del siglo xx. Fue galardonado con el American Book Award 1982 y el Premio Pulitzer 1982 y 1991 . Cásate conmigo 1977 es su octava novela.
