In OF THE FARM, Updike scrutinizes the plight of Joey Robinson, a 35 year-old New Yorker, as he returns to the farm where he lived his adolescence and visits his difficult mother. Joey is with Peggy, his second wife, and her precocious eleven year-old son, who uses such words as "uncanny" and "perhaps"/5(56). With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction."-- The New York Times 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 Cited by: · John Updike succeeds in this short novel of portraying the life of an uprooted American, one with a broken marriage, a new wife, his helplessness on being separated from his children, the relationship with his stepson, and the complex, love – hate equation he shares with his old mother. Life on the farm is also brought out beautifully depicting the seclusion, village life and beliefs www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.
About Of the Farm "A small masterpiece With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction."—The New York Times 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. "A small masterpiece With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction."—The New York Times 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. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Of The Farm by John Updike (, Mass Market Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
John Updike succeeds in this short novel of portraying the life of an uprooted American, one with a broken marriage, a new wife, his helplessness on being separated from his children, the relationship with his stepson, and the complex, love – hate equation he shares with his old mother. Life on the farm is also brought out beautifully depicting the seclusion, village life and beliefs convincingly. Of The Farm details the complex relationship between a son in his mid-thirties and his elderly mother. The son brings his new wife and her son from a previous marriage to his mother’s remote farm, and it’s obvious from the beginning that the mother and the wife are not going to get along. Though a brief novel, Updike delivers an intricate and dramatic story peeling away the complicated layers that make up relationships. In OF THE FARM, Updike scrutinizes the plight of Joey Robinson, a 35 year-old New Yorker, as he returns to the farm where he lived his adolescence and visits his difficult mother. Joey is with Peggy, his second wife, and her precocious eleven year-old son, who uses such words as "uncanny" and "perhaps".
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