2002, ISBN: 9780375414909

An extremely tight and unmarked copy-" John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains many conversations and some ra… Mehr…

An extremely tight and unmarked copy-" John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains many conversations and some rain. The seventy-eight-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 the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relationship between the two women, the interviewer, and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001. Review: A meditation on art, aging, and memory, John Updike's Seek My Face is the fictional equivalent of a PBS documentary on postwar American art. Seventy-nine-year-old Hope Chafetz, a painter of merit but, most importantly, wife to two major American artists, allows a young journalist named Kathryn to interview her for an online magazine. Having expected perhaps a two-hour talk over coffee, Hope is dismayed to find that her guest has brought sheaves of questions, a tape recorder, and the kind of scrupulous attention to detail--even sexual detail--that Hope would rather avoid. She gives an entire day to Kathryn, who, like memory itself, seems oblivious to Hope's need to eat, rest, or breathe fresh air. Seek My Face draws on the story of Lee Miller and Jackson Pollock, the model for Hope's first husband. These are the best parts of a slow, sumptuous, and intricately detailed novel that lacks any significant action except in retrospect. Hope's second husband is depicted as an amalgam of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Wayne Thiebaud--a useful survey of the period, but not compelling characterization. One can sense the author folding in important art-historical points and details toward the end, like last-minute ingredients in a cake that may be too heavy to rise. Readers who stay with Hope and Kathryn through the day, however, will be rewarded with a gorgeous, resonant, and almost anti-modern ending." --Regina Marler, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, 5<

ISBN: 9780375414909

ISBN: 0375414908. Author: Updike, John. Seek My Face. Condition: Used: Good. Qty Available: 2. London Bridge Books presents ...Seek My Face ISBN:0375414908 Author:Updike, John Publisher:… Mehr…

ISBN: 0375414908. Author: Updike, John. Seek My Face. Condition: Used: Good. Qty Available: 2. London Bridge Books presents ...Seek My Face ISBN:0375414908 Author:Updike, John Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf Release Date:2002-11-12 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:2 Condition:Used: Good Sku: 0375414908-3-18713227Notes: Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!, Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Book Title: Seek My Face, EAN: 9780375414909, Format: Hardback, Language: English, Subject: General Fiction, Alfred A. Knopf<

2002, ISBN: 9780375414909

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