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| becky sharp | Feb 13 2013, 02:02 PM Post #1 |
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I (very much) enjoyed this play on Radio 3 that gave an insight into the relationship between John Updike and his mother Both Eileen Atkins and Charles Edwards are excellent in it. Eileen Atkins and Charles Edwards star in this new play by Margaret Heffernan about the tempestuous relationship between one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century, John Updike, and his mother. When John Updike's mother was asked whether she was proud of her son's acclaim, she replied, "I'd rather it had been me." Updike said that one of his earliest memories was seeing his mother at her writing desk. He wrote many stories about his mother and mothers in general, almost all isolated by their intelligence and sensitivity, which their sons both love and fear. Replete with tension, they mirror the journey all children must make from love to separation to attempts at coexistence and back to love. But the stories are always about the son's journey, as though the mother has gone nowhere. But what of Mrs. Updike's journey? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qkvv0 |
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