Trust Me (Hardcover) Short Stories by John Updike

John Updike's short story collections are occasions for celebration -- the pleasures to be found in them are great indeed. This marvelous volume contains one gem after another, stories to be savored one at a time & returned to again & again.

Here is trust betrayed -- & fulfilled. Here are parents struggling to maintain that fragile claim on their offspring's childish awe....Here are husbands & wives as only Updike knows them, leaving each other, loving each other, often at the same time. Here are passion ignited & quenched, absurd hope, regret at the last minute. Here is life as we live in it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty & pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career.