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  • Seek My Face

  • A Novel
  • By: John Updike
  • Narrated by: Kathryn Walker
  • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (34 ratings)

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Seek My Face

By: John Updike
Narrated by: Kathryn Walker
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Publisher's summary

John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, 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.

©2002 John Updike (P)2002 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, a Division of Random House Inc.
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Critic reviews

"The novel achieves a remarkable depth of characterization and a glowing beauty in its articulation of the artistic sensibility." (Booklist)

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Better than 90% of the pap that passes for writing

Well written beautifully narrated. A very good listen.

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Seek My Face

A crashing bore! Certainly not up to Updyke?s usual.

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