# My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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- Authors: [John Updike](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-updike)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-259-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2010-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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