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Seek My Face

A Novel

A novel

A Novel

A Novel

By John Updike

By John Updike

By John Updike

By John Updike

By John Updike

By John Updike

By John Updike
Read by Kathryn Walker

By John Updike
Read by Kathryn Walker

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Nov 04, 2003 | ISBN 9780345460868

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Nov 12, 2002 | ISBN 9780375414909

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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307416599

Audiobook Download $19.95

Nov 12, 2002 | 562 Minutes

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    About Seek My Face

    A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. 

    “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time

    On 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.

    About Seek My Face

    A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. • “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time

    On 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.

    About Seek My Face

    A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. 

    “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time

    On 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.

    About Seek My Face

    A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. • “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time

    On 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.

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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Nov 04, 2003 | 288 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780345460868

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Hardcover | $23.00
    Published by Knopf
    Nov 12, 2002 | 288 Pages | 5-1/4 x 7-7/8 | ISBN 9780375414909

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Random House
    Dec 18, 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307416599

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $19.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Nov 12, 2002 | 562 Minutes | ISBN 9780553756586

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    “A brief novel of deep feeling . . . What you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went through the trouble of learning to read.”—Time
     
    “The premise of Seek My Face is clean and powerful, like a canvas by Barnett Newman. . . . Swirled over [it] is John Updike’s superabundant prose, dazzling strings of looping sentences that wrap these two women in glittering constellations of words.”—The New York Observer
     
    “A rewarding new novel from our reigning master of surprise, the last sequence of which is surpassing in its beauty.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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