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Intimate portrait of an artist's life journey.

"Seek My Face" offers a profound exploration of memory, art, and identity. Updike's exquisite prose paints the life of Hope Chafetz in all its complexity, reflecting the broader canvas of American art history. Diving into this book is like spending a rainy day enveloped in the richness of an artist's studio – you emerge with a sense of having touched something deeply human and inherently beautiful.

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Seek My Face

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ISBN: 9780375414909
Authors: John Updike
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date of Publication: 2002-11-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
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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.
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Intimate portrait of an artist's life journey.

"Seek My Face" offers a profound exploration of memory, art, and identity. Updike's exquisite prose paints the life of Hope Chafetz in all its complexity, reflecting the broader canvas of American art history. Diving into this book is like spending a rainy day enveloped in the richness of an artist's studio – you emerge with a sense of having touched something deeply human and inherently beautiful.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.