The Washington Post, May 10th, 1987
TRUST ME By John Updike Knopf. 302 pp. $17.95 JOHN UPDIKE's ninth collection of short stories finds him once again in "the suburban cat's-cradle" territory upon which he has exercised rights of ownership for more than three decades. The scene is at once wholly familiar and slightly different: familiar because the territory itself is virtually unchanged, different because its occupants, like their creator, have grown older. Where in the past Updike wrote about the lives of the relatively youthful, in Trust Me he is more concerned with "middle-aged restlessness"-with the dislocations, both actua...
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