Trust Me

By - Updike, John

Floor - Floor 3

Published - FAWEET

ISBN 10 - 0449912175

ISBN 13 - 9780449912171

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Short stories, American

Shelf No - 2

Call Number - 813.54 UPD

Physical Description - 302

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The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege his aging heroes and heroines. One man loves his wife’s twin, and several men love the imagined bliss of their pasts; one woman takes an impotent lover, and another must administer her father’s death. Bourgeois comforts and youthful convictions are tenderly seen as certain to erode: “Man,” as one of these stories concludes, “was not meant to abide in paradise.”

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