Author:John Updike
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who defined their times. As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope - interviewer and interviewee - try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and time that lies between them. And subtly, as each comes to know the other, their relationship changes ...
Extraordinary prose
—— Sunday TimesAs Kipling was to the secrets of the jungle, so is Baker to modern domesticity, equally ready with fascinating observation
—— Daily TelegraphThere is a good deal more everyday wonder here than in a hundred original miscellanies
—— ObserverThis might be Baker's best yet - you're in for a treat
—— Evening StandardLike the small, agreeable sensations it so deftly evokes, this modestly scaled story is a pleasure that can add cheer to an entire day
—— SpectatorUtterly convincing and compelling ... A stunning feat of the imagination and an absolute must-read
—— Steven PressfieldDenys Johnson-Davies...the leading Arabic-English translator of our time
—— Edward Said
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