num_pages: 259
description: "The Music School "is a place of learning, in which a sheltered South Dakota boy meets his roommate at Harvard, a rebel with whom he will have a violent-and ambiguous-physical encounter; a warring married couple, Richard and Joan Maple, try and try again to find solace in sex; and Henry Bech, an unprolific American writer publicizing himself far from home, enjoys a moment of improbable, poignant, untranslatable connection with a Bulgarian poetess. In these twenty short stories, each evidence of his early mastery, John Updike brings us a world-a world of fumbling, pausing, and beginning again; a world sensitively felt and lovingly expressed; a world whose pianissimo" "harmonies demand new subtleties of fictional form.
language: English
title: The Music School V510
titlecomplete: The Music School V510
genres: American, Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary
ratings_count: 312
publisher: Vintage