Ebook {Epub PDF} Seek My Face by John Updike

Seek My Face. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Price: $ Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Item # ISBN: Add to Cart Ask a Question. item image. John Updike birth name: John Updike born: 3/18/ died: 1/27/ View Reference Info. Seek my Face was John Updike’s fifty-fourth book and twentieth novel, and by this time () the wunderkind of sixties American Lit had largely been sidelined, both by newer writers such as Don de Lillo, Paul Auster and Toni Morrison, and by the fierce shake-down he copped in the seventies from feminist critics for the sexism of much of his prose/5. Nonetheless, Seek My Face is a compelling gesture in the spirit of the venerable declaration of artistic intent that Updike quotes from the Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, which states “that.

SEEK MY FACE John Updike, Author. Knopf $23 (p) ISBN Updike's descriptions of landscapes and interiors are painterly in themselves, closely observed and sensuous. John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair, takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through stories from. A recurring qualification of the writing of John Updike is that technically it is perfect, but rather uninspired. Likewise, Seek my face, is a very well-written, but rather long and ultimately boring novel.

Seek My Face by John Updike pp, Hamish Hamilton, £ Hope Chafetz sits in the front parlour of her Vermont farmhouse on the cold side of spring. She is 78 years old, a painter, three. Seek my Face was John Updike’s fifty-fourth book and twentieth novel, and by this time () the wunderkind of sixties American Lit had largely been sidelined, both by newer writers such as Don de Lillo, Paul Auster and Toni Morrison, and by the fierce shake-down he copped in the seventies from feminist critics for the sexism of much of his prose. Seek My Face is a work of true genius. Updike manages to penetrate into the very soul of this woman, her life, all women. Also it is a study of aging as well as a fascinating history of twentieth century Art.