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John Updike's 'My Father's Tears and Other Stories'

MY FATHER'S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES, by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 292 pp., $25.95. Our poet laureate of adultery and suburban angst, John Updike, died in January, which for some will imbue this collection with head-nodding solemnity. The story titles don't help ("The Road Home," "Varieties of Religious Experience," "Personal Archaeology"), nor does the volume's preoccupation with regret and...

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