Playbill
January, 2006
One of America's leading men of letters, John Updike writes about discovering different cultures--and oneself--in German Lessons. "The story and characters originated in a mixture of memory and imagination," he says. "I suppose it was an image of the green feet of young women sitting on the grass in the 1970s. Flower children were just losing their petals." The piece tracks a man's midlife crisis in the fallout from the counterculture movement and its celebration of personal...
