My Father's Tears And Other Stories

Classically Updike . . . written with fluidity and humor, intelligence and wit about the elusiveness of happiness, contentment, grace. Newsday
 
Here . . . one last time . . . are the cardinal virtues of a writer who bestrode the American literary landscape for more than a half century: a virtuosic talent for sensual description, the seemingly effortless weaving of image and theme, and an almost Proustian capacity to absorb the reader in the quiddities of childhood and adolescence. San Francisco Chronicle
 
A self-conscious salute to a grand career of imagining and gorgeously describing our America, along with a wink of gratitude to those readers who have shared the journey. The Washington Post