Seek my face / John Updike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Updike, John.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.

Reminiscing in old age.

Interviewing.

Vermont.

Autobiographical memory--Fiction.

Autobiographical memory.

Women painters--Fiction.

Women painters.

Interviewing--Fiction.

Older women--Fiction.

Older women.

Vermont--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Belletristische Darstellung.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

276 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Ballantine trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ballantine Books, 2003.

Summary:

John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, "The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation 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 relation 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.

"From the Hardcover edition.

Notes:

"First Ballantine International Mass Market Edition: October 2003"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0345460863

9780345460868

OCLC:

53481871