{"product_id":"9780345513809","title":"My Father's Tears and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.”\u003c\/i\u003e That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In \u003ci\u003eMy Father’s Tears,\u003c\/i\u003e the author revisits his signature characters, places, and themes—Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity—in a gallery of portraits of his aging generation, men and women for whom making peace with the past is now paramount. \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e called \u003ci\u003eMy Father’s Tears\u003c\/i\u003e “a haunting collection” that “echoes the melancholy of Chekhov, the romanticism of Wordsworth and the mournful spirit of Yeats.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046874005744,"sku":"9780345513809","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345513809","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}