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Of the Farm

By John Updike

Book information

Publisher
Ballantine Books
Year
2004
ISBN
0345468228, 9780345468222
LCC
PS3571.P4 O4 2004
Open Library ID
OL3318483M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1657598 bytes)
Pages
132\132
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and the strategies they use to stand their ground.

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