The Maples Stories
$34.83
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2009
Summary
Eighteen stories from across Updike’s career that chronicle the history of a marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.
In 1956 John Updike wrote a short story about newly-weds Joan and Richard Maple. Over the next two decades he returned to this couple again and again, tracking their years together as they raise children and deal with the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Gathered here for the first time in hardcover - and with the addition of a later story, ‘Grandparent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841596037 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841596035 |
| Author: | John Updike |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 124mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS |
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About The Author
John Updike
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
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