Description

Steve Updike’s last novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair, happens in one single day, a day which contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the span of her eventful life hasbeen Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her with a Ny interviewer called Kathryn, and recapitulates, through tales from her profession and several partnerships, the triumphant, poignant tale of post-war American art. Within the relation between your two ladies, topic and interviewer relocate and from the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The picture is key Vermont; the full time, the first spring of 2001.