John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, Endpoint, written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed him, that Updike's work is at its most touching and poignant.
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(Shillington, Pennsylvania, 1932) es autor de más de cincuenta libros, entre los que se cuentan, con ésta, veinte novelas. Además de haber sido galardonado en dos ocasiones con el Premio Pulitzer (en 1982 y 1991), en 1982 obtuvo el American Book Award.