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Trust Me
John Updike
其他書名
Short Stories
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2012-09-18
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Family Life / General
ISBN
0679645977
9780679645979
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RO-eMmQNYnMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.”