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Content: John Updike, "The Persistence of Desire"

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On this segment of HarperAudio!,
Author and poet John Updike reads excerpts from his short story "The 

Persistence of Desire."  Updike's characters tend to be superficially 

ordinary suburbanites with complex interior lives. By providing minutely 

detailed descriptions of common objects and actions in a style rich with 

metaphors, Updike adds significance to their actions and personalities.
In this story, a man visits an eye doctor and meets an old flame.  This 

recording was made in 1969.  The story is in two parts, and has been edited 

for length.

 

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