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The early stories, 1953-1975

A collection of almost all of the short fiction John Updike published between 1953 and 1975.

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  • "Early stories 1953-1975"

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  • "Of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. "How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms," reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story. "Contemplating John Updike's monumental achievement in the short story, one is moved to think of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and perhaps William Faulkner'writers whose reputations would be as considerable, or nearly, if short stories had been all that they had written. From [his] remarkable early short story collections ... through his beautifully nuanced stories of family life [and] the bittersweet humors of middle age and beyond ... John Updike has created a body of work in the notoriously difficult form of the short story to set beside those of these distinguished American predecessors. Congratulations and heartfelt thanks are due to John Updike for having brought such pleasure and such illumination to so many readers for so many years."
  • "Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marriage and young families, and finally Updike's experimental stories on 'The Single Life'. Here, then, is a rich and satisfying feast of Updike--his wit, his easy mastery of language, his genius for recalling the subtleties of ordinary life and the excitements, and perils, of the pursuit of happiness."
  • "A collection of almost all of the short fiction John Updike published between 1953 and 1975."@en
  • "Encompassing nearly all of the author's short fiction published between 1953 and 1975, this anthology of 103 stories ranges from his first work, "Ace in the Hole," to "Love Song, for a Moog Synthesizer.""
  • "Encompassing nearly all of the author's short fiction published between 1953 and 1975, this anthology of 103 stories ranges from his first work, "Ace in the Hole," to "Love Song, for a Moog Synthesizer.""@en

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  • "The early stories, 1953-1975"
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  • "Early stories : 1953-1975"
  • "The early stories 1953-1975"
  • "Early Stories 1953-1975"@en
  • "The early stories, 1953 - 1975"
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  • "The early stories : 1953-1975"@en
  • "The early stories : 1953-1975"

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