The Maples stories
By: John Updike.
Series: Everyman's pocket classics; Everyman's pocket classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780307271761; 9781841596037
Subjects: Married people -- United States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "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 and losing moments of romantic rapport, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Now these stories appear in a single volume in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, "Grandparenting," which returns us to the Maples long after their wrenching divorce. Together, The Maples Stories offers a nuanced portrait of a flawed marriage between two sympathetic, well-intentioned practitioners of twentieth-century family life."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Snowing in Greenwich village --; title: Wife-wooing --; title: Giving blood --; title: Twin beds in Rome --; title: Marching through Boston --; title: The taste of metal --; title: Your lover just called --; title: Waiting up --; title: Eros rampant --; title: Plumbing --; title: The red-herring theory --; title: Sublimating --; title: Nakedness --; title: Separating --; title: Gesturing --; title: Divorcing : a fragment --; title: Here come the Maples --; title: Grandparenting.