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Title: Of the Farm by John Updike ISBN: 0-449-21451-6 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 July, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Rural Oedipus
Comment: This is a very short novel, perhaps novella would be a better description, in which Joey takes his second wife Peggy and his stepson Richard to visit his family's farm. The farm's sole occupant is Joey's ageing (and ailing) mother, Mary.
Updike explores the tensions that emerge within families with his usual acute eye. Joey is forced to confront his past, not least the failure of his first marriage, not only through the physical environment which stimulates his memory, but also by his feisty mother. Here, there is a complex mother-son relationship, one which Updike reveals slowly. How much did it contribute towards the decline of Joey's first marriage? Does his second marriage stand a better chance? Is the nascent relationship between Mary and Richard an echo of Mary's relationship with the child Joey?
I thought that this was a sensitive and thoughtful work, its brevity being a disappointment.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: Not Updike's best effort
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Title: The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike ISBN: 0449212130 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Early Stories : 1953-1975 by John Updike ISBN: 1400040728 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Seek My Face by John Updike ISBN: 0375414908 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Marry Me : A Romance by John Updike ISBN: 0449912159 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Hugging the Shore by John Updike ISBN: 0394531795 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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