John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike's work is at its most touching and poignant.
| ISBN: | 9780141044507 |
| Publication date: | 6th May 2010 |
| Author: | John Updike |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 97 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike's work is at its most touching and poignant.
Endpoint and Other Poems features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Endpoint and Other Poems is available in Paperback, Ebook
Endpoint and Other Poems was written by John Updike and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Endpoint and Other Poems has 97 pages
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