Volume 50, Number 5 · March 27, 2003

Geniuses Together

By John Russell
Seek My Face
by John Updike

Knopf, 276 pp., $23.00

John Updike's novel Seek My Face is the life story, told mostly in the first person singular, of an American woman called Hope Chafetz. She is presented to us as the wife and widow of a major figure in the history of American painting.



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