About this title: Twenty-two of Updike's best short stories, many of them about the issue of trust--trust that is betrayed as well as trust that is, painfully, fulfilled.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780394558332ISBN:0394558332
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 302 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780394558332ISBN:0394558332
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. minor chips to the upper edge of jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 302 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780449214985ISBN:0449214982
Description: Good. CT-Spine is well creased. Covers show wear a the edges and corners. Average Reading copy. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780449214985ISBN:0449214982
Description: Very-Good. 12mo. {004402} Trust Me by John Updike. ISBN 0449214982. Published by Fawcett Books in 1988. MASS MARKET PAPERBACK 12mo {Book Condition} VERY-GOOD {Jacket Condition Details} missing. {Book Condition Details} Cover: edge wear, minor soiling, short tear(s), light creasing on Spine, light creasing, rubbing, End Papers: partial tanning on front paste down, Text: tanning around extremities, occasional creasing. {Keywords} AMERICAN FICTION FICTIONAL WORKS AUTHOR. read more
Description: Very Good. Book Condition: Very Good; Dust Jacket Condition: Good. clean text, dust jacket has some light shelf wear. Helps support Christian Homeschooling Family. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780449214985ISBN:0449214982
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Good reading copy; no loose pages; bookseller stamp; Clean pages. Tight Binding. New and unread but has waviness to pages (does not interfere with text). Protective transparent tape on lower front corner-not torn. read more
"Updike's descriptions and use of imagery are staggeringly original and fresh. The narratives, too, often hinge on surprising twists. (Critics are often too harsh in their dismissal of Updike's abilities with narrative.) I especially enjoy Updike's themes, another feature of his writing that is too often described pejoratively. He was a man obsessed not only with middle-class adultery but with Protestant theology and church attendance. Never before in my life have I intentionally read fiction with these sorts of themes, but his fiction is grounded and courageous and not narrowly limited or self-censored. I love it!"
"A collection from the master, who just passed away last month. John Updike wrote his short stories about day-to-day life in the suburbs, and some people faulted him for using such a narrow canvas, but there are always moments in his stories that take your breath away. He was an absolute master at using the English language, and his sentences sing. Someone once described him as "the Fred Astaire of American letters", and it was a good way to sum him up. He made it look so easy, but of course there was a lot of hard work that went into that careless grace."
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