- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition (27 Oct 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140113630
- ISBN-13: 978-0140113631
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,583,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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" Dazzling...We certainly can trust him -- we are in very good hands."
-- The New York Times
-- The New York Times
" It is in his short stories that we find Updike's most assured work...and almost without fail they give pleasure, a quality not to be taken lightly."
-- The Washington Post Book World
" For thirty years, John Updike has been among our most clearsighted, hard-working, emotionally courageous, technically adept, playful, serious, and productive artists....Read him."
-- USA Today
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Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them, leaving each other, loving each other, often at the same time. Here is passion ignited and quenched, absurd hope, ineffectual regret. Here is life as we live it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career . . .
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Trust Updike
13 July 2000
Format:Paperback
What, really, can one say against John Updike? Where, in these stories, can he be faulted? Well, the question need not be so rhetorical. One might, for example, consider the charge that his material is relatively unvarying. Time and again in his short stories Updike returns to the same territory: the white, middle-class couple caught up in the flux of an extra-marital affair. This is the central theme of no less than six of these twenty-two tales, but it touches the edges of many of the others too. And of these others all are confined to the same domestic and social milieu - from 'Killing', in which a daughter must cope with her father's death from Alzheimer's Disease, to 'The City', in which a salesman unexpectedly contracts appendicitis while on a business trip. Where is the broader vision - the black characters, the homosexuals, the political radicals? They are absent from Updike's vision. And yet, if this artist paints on a restricted canvas, it is the detail and style of the brushstrokes that redeems his art. 'Trust Me' is as reliable - as trustworthy - a demonstration as any work in the Updike corpus that the man's linguistic style is extraordinary. Central to it is an astonishing facility for metaphor; no less characteristic is his ear for the musical, his faculty for critical analysis, and a taste for symbolism that is at once unobtrusive and yet deeply satisfying. With such an abundance of stylistic gifts all working simultaneously, the unchanging world of Updike's characters remains fresh and, in 'Trust Me', fresher than ever.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Good First Choice for the Updike Reader
3 Aug 2000
Format:Paperback
Men, women, what works and what does not - this seems to be the central theme of Trust Me. This was my first Updike book and as a collection of short stories, Trust Me represents a wise choice in this regard. The reader gets a taste of the Updike style in several short works which, despite being rich in detail and innuendo, are easily consumable - especially if read from start to finish without any long breaks.
Some beautiful writing in pedestrian stories
16 Dec 2011
Format:Paperback
This is only the second Updike book I have read so I'm not overly familiar with his work. This collection of stories explores the relationships between men and women, husbands and wives and many times their lovers. This is not an uplifting collection as most of the characters have serious personality flaws and troubled partnerships. Out of 20 or so stories there were 4 I really liked: "Trust Me", "Killing", "Still of Some Use" and "Getting into the Set". The rest were mainly OK, a few were very dull. Mr. Updike can certainly write. Several times I stopped reading to let one of his turns of phrase or description really sink in because it was so beautiful. There are times he overdoes it, gets too complex when simplicity would do. I found a few of the stories, like "The City" to be pointless and after getting halfway through, a sameness crept into the tales. The characters started becoming each other, their lives and foibles very much the same as a story or two before. I'm glad I read the book. Its always a pleasure to read a writer who can put words together with as much elegance as Updike can, but the overall experience of Trust Me was pedestrian.
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