Of the Farm
John Updike
In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and the strategies they use to stand their ground.
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Год:
2004
Издательство:
Ballantine Books
Язык:
english
ISBN 10:
0345468228
ISBN 13:
9780345468222
Файл:
EPUB, 163 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2004