The Afterlife and Other Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism, Lyric story
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Memory, Twentieth century, Marriage, Divorce, Death or dying, Life and death, Middle age, Mortality, Nostalgia, Aging
- Locales: United States, England, East (U.S.), Ireland, Scotland
No other living writer is so unmistakably identified with that well-known brand of modem fiction called The New Yorker story as John Updike is. A master of lyrical prose style, minimalist plot, and ennuied character, Updike seems to have always been there waiting for readers in the thickly textured and inconspicuously placed columns of The New Yorker’s slick, cartoon-populated pages. Thus, it was inevitable, although it is still disconcerting to discover, that this former “whiz kid” of the smooth and subtle prose style has grown old. It was only a matter of time...
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