"Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned." That\'s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories.
John Updike died in January 2009..
In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal.
From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
The Seattle Times called My Father\'s Tears "a haunting collection" that "echoes the melancholy of Chekhov, the romanticism of Wordsworth and the mournful spirit of Yeats."About the Author: John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932.
In My Father\'s Tears, the author revisits his signature characters, places, and themes--Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity--in a gallery of portraits of his aging generation, men and women for whom making peace with the past is now paramount.
He might have been writing about himself. "Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned." That\'s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories
