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The early stories, 1953-1975 / John Updike.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Updike, John.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Updike, John (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 838 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- A collection of almost all of the short fiction John Updike published between 1953 and 1975.
- Contents:
- You'll never know, dear, how much I love you
- The alligators
- Pigeon feathers
- Friends from Philadelphia
- A sense of shelter
- Flight
- The happiest I've been
- The persistence of desire
- The blessed man of Boston, my grandmother's thimble, and Fanning Island
- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car
- In football season
- The lucid eye in Silver Town
- The kid's whistling
- Ace in the hole
- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth
- The Christian roommates
- Dentistry and doubt
- A madman
- Still life
- Home
- Who made yellow roses yellow?
- His finest hour
- A trillion feet of gas
- Dear Alexandros
- The doctor's wife
- At a bar in Charlotte Amalie
- Toward evening
- Snowing in Greenwich Village
- Sunday teasing
- Incest
- A gift from the city
- Walter Briggs
- The crow in the woods
- Should wizard hit Mommy?
- Wife-wooing
- Unstuck
- Giving blood
- Twin beds in Rome
- Marching through Boston
- Nakedness
- The family meadow
- The day of the dying rabbit
- How to love America and leave it at the same time
- The music school
- Man and daughter in the cold
- The rescue
- Plumbing
- The orphaned swimming pool
- When everyone was pregnant
- Eros rampant
- Sublimating
- Nevada
- The gun shop
- Son
- Daughter, last glimpses of
- Solitaire
- Leaves
- The stare
- Museums and women
- Avec la bébé-sitter
- Four sides of one story
- The morning
- My lover has dirty fingernails
- Harv is plowing now
- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me
- The Indian
- The hillies
- The tarbox police
- The corner
- A & P
- Lifeguard
- The deacon
- The carol sing
- The taste of metal
- Your lover just called
- Commercial
- Minutes of the last meeting
- Believers
- Eclipse
- Archangel
- The dark
- The astronomer
- The witnesses
- A constellation of events
- Ethiopia
- Transaction
- Augustine's concubine
- During the Jurassic
- Under the microscope
- The baluchitherium
- The invention of the horse collar
- Jesus on Honshu
- The slump
- The sea's green sameness
- The Bulgarian poetess
- The hermit
- I am dying, Egypt, dying
- Separating
- Gesturing
- Killing
- Problems
- The man who loved extinct mammals
- Love song, for a Moog synthesizer.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 signed by the author.
- ISBN:
- 0345463366
- 9780345463364
- OCLC:
- 56630632
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