Book description
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 ... John Updike was born in
1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Since 1957 he has lived in
Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book
Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Howells Medal.
