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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 and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and the strategies they use to stand their ground.

Who reads Of the Farm?

Author

John Updike

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679645757

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.52 / 5 (716 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14