Book description
A grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories.
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike
published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's
autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the
Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life
away from home, student days, early marriage and young families, and
finally Updike's experimental stories on 'The Single Life'. Here,
then, is a rich and satisfying feast of Updike - his wit, his easy
mastery of language, his genius for recalling the subtleties of
ordinary life and the excitements, and perils, of the pursuit of happiness.
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Since
1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer
Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award
and the Howells Medal.
