Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
John Updike's first collection of new short stories in seven years deals with such problems as divorce and remarriage, parents and children, prostitution and leprosy, extinct mammals and guilt-gems, resigning from a committee and getting in and out of Ethiopia.
Table of Contents
Commercial -- Minutes of the last meeting -- Believers -- The gun shop -- How to love America and leave it at the same time -- Nevada -- Son -- Daughter, last glimpses of -- Ethiopia -- Transaction -- Separating -- Augustine's concubine -- The man who loved extinct mammals -- Problems -- Domestic life in America -- Love song, for a Moog Synthesizer -- From the journal of a leper -- Here come the Maples -- The fairy godfathers -- The faint -- The egg race -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises.