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John Updike: Collected Early Stories (LOA #242) by John Updike - ISBN: 9781598532517
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Of the 102 stories gathered here, eighty first appeared in the New Yorker. Most were revised by the author for his collections. All were written from 1953 to 1975, when Updike was in his twenties, thirties, and early forties, and are arranged here, for the first time, in the order in which they were completed.

John Updike: Collected Early Stories (LOA #242)

Collected Early Stories

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    955 pages

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    20 November 2013

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In John Updike’s later stories, his signature protagonist―a onetime small-town Pennsylvania boy deeply moved by art, sex, faith, and the mystery of existence―arrives at middle age to find that the world remains a vale of soul-making.The Library of America presents the first of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are 102 classic stories that chart Updike’s emergence as America’s foremost practitioner of the short story, “our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described him. Ba…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781598532517
ISBN-10:1598532510
Author:John Updike, Christopher Carduff
Publisher:The Library of America
Imprint:The Library of America
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:955
Release Date:20 November 2013
Weight:617g
Dimensions:207mm x 130mm x 30mm
Series:Library of America John Updike Edition
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About The Author

John Updike

Christopher Carduff is the editor of John Updike’s posthumous collections Higher Gossip- Essays and Criticism (2011) and Always Looking- Essays on Art (2012), and has been a consulting editor for The Library of America since 2006. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts.

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