Too Far to Go

Name: Too Far to Go
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780679645955

John Updike

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Too Far to Go

John Updike

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The Maples stories trace the decline and fall of a marriage, a marriage that is threatened early on by the temptations of infidelity and that ends in a midlife divorce. They also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared. That all blessings are mixed and fleeting does not make them less real, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. A tribe segregated in a valley develops an accent, then a dialect, and then a language all its own; so does a couple. Let this collection preserve one particular dead tongue, no easier to parse than Latin.

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