Seek My Face (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1922-2001
- Setting: Rural Vermont and New York City
- Principal Characters: Hope Chafetz, Zack McCoy, Guy Holloway, Jerome Chafetz, Kathryn D’Angelo
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, Twentieth century, New York City, Art or artists, Twenty-first century, Women, Painting or painters, Old age or elderly people, Career women, Vermont, Interviewing
- Locales: New York, NY, Vermont
Throughout his exceptionally active writing life, John Updike has regularly contributed essays to prominent journals focusing on the “visible matter” of artists whose work he finds interesting. The title of his 1972 collection of short fiction, Museums and Women, explicitly states two of his predominant subjects, and in Seek My Face, Updike joins these preoccupations in his conception of the protagonist of the novel, Hope Chafetz, who spends a day at her home in rural Vermont in a protracted interview with an ambitious young journalist from New York City. Born Hope...
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