{"product_id":"afterlife-and-other-stories-1","title":"Afterlife: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAfterlife: And Other Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Updike\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780449912010\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House Publishing Group\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Paperback Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is.\"--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: \"A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.\" All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own exquisite dearness. As death approaches, existence takes on, for some of Updike's aging characters, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misperception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Here is a world where wonder stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Afterlife: And Other Stories | John Updike | Paperback | 9780449912010 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1738312","offer_id":50892572393730,"sku":"1738312","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71zoIRvdcaL.jpg?v=1793132228","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/afterlife-and-other-stories-1","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}