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      Trust Me

      by John Updike
      Published
      May 1988
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      336
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      The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant friends besiege his aging heroes and heroines. One man loves his wife's twin, and several men love the imagined bliss of their pasts; one woman takes an impotent lover, and another must administer her father's death. Bourgeois comforts and youthful convictions are tenderly seen as certain to erode: "Man," as one of these stories concludes, "was not meant to abide in paradise."

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      May 1988 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449214985 ISBN10 0449214982
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      Sep 1996 Ballantine ISBN13 9780449912171 ISBN10 0449912175
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      First Edition May 1988 Knopf ISBN13 9780394561479 ISBN10 0394561473
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      Apr 1987 Knopf ISBN13 9780394558332 ISBN10 0394558332
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      Nov 1988 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140113631 ISBN10 0140113630
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      Sep 2012 Random House ISBN13 9780679645979 ISBN10 0679645977
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      Sep 2012 Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN10 B006L7RO8C
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      Sep 1987 Random House Audio ISBN13 9780394563565 ISBN10 0394563565
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      Oct 2017 Random House Audio ISBN10 B076DMR6KC
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