My Father's Tears and Other Stories Audiobook

" Lovely vintage Updike. Tales of longing, divorce, travel, and manhood. "

" I sometimes think Updike's earliest stories can be long and meandering, but this is a collection of taut gems by a master craftsman. I suspect he wrote most of them while he knew he wasn't much longer for this world, but you needn't be dying to appreciate them. They capture perfectly the exquisite poignance of regrets, mistakes, and missed chances. "

" Short stories about men and their relationships--to their parents, to their children, to their wives and lovers--across time from Depression era childhoods to reunions with classmates in their seventies. Updike's a national treasure, and this is his final work. Makes me want to reread the Rabbit trilogy, and John Cheever's short stories too. "

" A marvellous collection of beautiful stories. "

" Can't help it ... still a large Updike fan. Masterful short stories. Very moving collection. "

" So that's what it's like to grow old and near death. Wow! "

" Not my favorite Updike, but made me profoundly sad at his passing. "

" Writing is good, but half the stories and characters are just not that interesting. "

" One of my long-time favorite authors, and this last book of stories reaffirmed that. It's difficult to think of the world without John Updike. "

" Collectively and as a group, this is Updike facing age and remembrance. Time to go back and read his earlier collections again. RIP and thanks for this last goodbye. "

" Short pieces, nostalgic, many of them looking back to earlier times, presumably many written as Updike approached the end of his own life. "

" A wonderful collection of short stories ... a fitting end to a brilliant career. Not his best collection, that honor still belongs to "Pigeon Feathers." But several pieces in the book will be anthologized and discussed in classrooms for a long time. "

" John Updike. Love him. "

" I just kept thinking of Reading, PA (Updike calls the city Alton) while reading these stories. "

" John Updike comes highly recommended, and maybe I'll try a novel. Some of these short stories were powerful, but after a while, they all started to seem the same, and to appeal to readers older than me, so I stopped. "

" I love short stories and had never read anything by John Updike. The stories were a bit depressing, yet it was interesting to read a whole book of short stories through a man's eyes---very different point of view on life than the typical woman. "

" The stories were all good, but there was a similarity to them that made it seem repetitive sometimes. They were all written for magazines over the course of several years, so that is an issue of selection and editing rather than one of writing. "

" These short stories were a quick, enjoyable read but what is it with his recurring theme of adultery? I hadn't read any of his past works and don't plan to check them out as a result of this one. "

" Updike, who died in January of this year, is a master at revealing multiple layers of meaning in even the most mundane of events. He chronicles ordinary, suburban, Amercian lives in a way that makes me glad to be alive! "

" Read some stories, all were intersting. Short, but still they drag you in! Good writing.German lessons, Delicate Wifes, My Father's Tears "

" This book is very well written with a lot of human insights. However, it did not really spike my interest. "

" Melancholy, well crafted, stories of middle age in America. "

" Returning to Updike always reminds me what great writing looks and sounds like. This collection of later stories involving older protagonists shows that his talent grows better with age. "

" Not my favorite Updike, but made me profoundly sad at his passing. "

" Even though I cannot relate (yet) to most of the themes Updike touches on in this collection of stories, all of them are extremely well-written. The pictures and emotions Updike paints with deceptively simple prose really strike a nerve. "

" I'm a big fan of short stories, they sometiomes leave you with more questions than answers, but that's ok. So far, this is Updike at his best. "

" Collectively and as a group, this is Updike facing age and remembrance. Time to go back and read his earlier collections again. RIP and thanks for this last goodbye. "

" This is a fine collection of short stories, but I was hoping for what I had seen in the Rabbit series – and didn’t find it here. "