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The Maples Storiesby John Updike
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updikes career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, “Grandparenting,” which returns us to the Mapless lives long after their wrenching divorce. About the AuthorJohn 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. He was 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. He died in 2009. Table of ContentsForeword
Snowing in Greenwich Village Wife-Wooing Giving Blood Twin Beds in Rome Marching Through Boston The Taste of Metal Your Lover Just Called Waiting Up Eros Rampant Plumbing The Red-Herring Theory Sublimating Nakedness Separating Gesturing Divorcing: A Fragment Here Come the Maples Grandparenting Acknowledgments What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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