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A Review of “My Father’s Tears,” John Updike’s Last Book

September 1st, 2009 by John Strawn
small_tears 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... Full Story