"Inspired by and drawing on three British novels (HG Wells's The Time Machine, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Henry Green's Concluding), Updike's debut imagines a near future where the residents of a care home stage a revolt in which two antagonists, John Hook and Stephen Conner, struggle for supremacy. A curio. Updike tropes Religion, death 11 Seek My Face (2002) Over the course of a single day, 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz endures the determined attention of Kathryn D'Angelo, a young, ambitious art journalist."
"Updike had by this point been on the receiving end of many such encounters and the novel, told almost entirely from Hope's perspective, bristles with resentment at the presumptions and blind spots inherent in the situation. Updike tropes Art, religion 10 S. (1988) An epistolary novel that draws on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 19th-century story of adultery and hypocrisy, The Scarlet Letter, to ironise faith and fidelity in the 1980s."
A near-future care home revolt features two antagonists, John Hook and Stephen Conner, competing for supremacy amid staged insurrection. A single day follows 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz enduring determined attention from Kathryn D'Angelo, a young art journalist, with Hope's perspective bristling with resentment at presumptions and blind spots. An epistolary account draws on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter to ironise faith and fidelity in the 1980s, and depicts Sarah Worth abandoning family to join an Arizona ashram led by the guru Arhat Mindadali. A prequel to Hamlet focuses on Gerutha's teenage marriage to Horwendil and a reciprocated passion for Feng, suggesting ominous portents. A political pastiche offers minimal insight into Gerald Ford's presidency.
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