num_pages: 262
description: 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. His heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive, or reproachful. St. Augustine is ambivalent about his concubine. Another man finds extinct mammals easiest to love. Pain and comedy closely co-exist in this primarily domestic world of the self-seeking Seventies, where our lives dissolve into television commercials and the morning paper brings us news of lost Atlantises.Jacket design by the author.Description from inside jacket sleeve.
language: English
title: Problems and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Problems and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, American Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 320
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf