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U AND US

Endpoint and Other Poems (Hardcover)

By John Updike
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780307272867
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Published: Knopf, 3/2009
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Endpoint (Knopf, $25) is a book of poems Updike wrote in the last seven years of his life. I loved all of them, especially Updike’s own valedictory farewell, “Requiem”: For life’s a shabby subterfuge,/ and death is real, and dark, and huge,/ the shock of it will register/ Nowhere but where it will occur.”

My Father's Tears and Other Stories (Hardcover)

By John Updike
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307271563
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Published: Knopf, 6/2009
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My Father’s Tears (Knopf, $25.95), Updike’s last short story collection, is quintessential Updike: thinly veiled autobiography. The volume’s final story leaves us with a benediction as a toast is drunk to the visible world, “impending disappearance from it be damned.”

The Maples Stories (Hardcover)

By John Updike
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307271761
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Published: Everyman's Library, 8/2009
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The Maples Stories (Everyman, $15), those poignant linked short fictions of a disintegrating marriage, originally—30 years ago—titled Too Far to Go, has been reissued with a new addition, “Grandparenting,” along with Updike’s reassurance that the Maples are “both still alive and look well, considering.”