John Updike published the first of his celebrated short stories in
The New Yorker in 1955. When he died earlier this year at the age
of 76, another installment of the long and honored succession of
books he wrote at a prodigious rate over more than five decades was
at the publisher's. "My Father's Tears"
has the virtues of all Updike's fiction, though one reads it with
a...
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