The early stories, 1953-1975
By: John Updike.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 838
Subjects: Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories.
Table of contents: title: You'll never know, dear, how much I love you; title: The alligators; title: Pigeon feathers; title: Friends from Philadelphia; title: A sense of shelter; title: Flight; title: The happiest I've been; title: The persistence of desire; title: The blessed man of Boston, my grandmother's thimble, and Fanning Island; title: Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car; title: In football season; title: The lucid eye in Silver Town; title: The kid's whistling; title: Ace in the hole; title: Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth; title: The Christian roommates; title: Dentistry and doubt; title: A madman; title: Still life; title: Home; title: Who made yellow roses yellow?; title: His finest hour; title: A trillion feet of gas; title: Dear Alexandros; title: The doctor's wife; title: At a bar in charlotte Amalie; title: Toward evening; title: Showing in Greenwich Village; title: Sunday teasing; title: Incest; title: A gift from the city; title: Walter Briggs; title: The crow in the woods; title: Should wizard hit mommy?; title: Wife-wooing; title: Unstuck; title: Giving blood; title: Twin beds in Rome; title: Marching through Boston; title: Nakedness; title: The family meadow; title: The day of the dying rabbit; title: How to love America  and leave it at the same time; title: The music school; title: Man and daughter in the cold; title: The rescue; title: Plumbing.; title: The orphaned swimming pool; title: When everyone was pregnant; title: Eros rampant; title: Sublimating; title: Nevada; title: The gun shop; title: Son; title: Daughter, last glimpses of; title: Solitaire; title: Leaves; title: The stare; title: Museums and women; title: Avec la bebe-sitter; title: Four sides of one story; title: The morning; title: My lover has dirty fingernails; title: Harv is plowing now; title: I will not let thee go, except thou bless me; title: The Indian; title: The hillies; title: The Tarbox police; title: The corner; title: A & P; title: Lifeguard; title: The deacon; title: The carol sing; title: The taste of metal; title: Your lover just called; title: Commercial; title: Minutes of the last meeting; title: Believers; title: Eclipse; title: Archangel; title: The dark; title: The astronomer; title: The witnesses; title: A constellation of events; title: Ethiopia; title: Transaction; title: Augustine's concubine; title: During the Jurassic; title: Under the microscope; title: The Baluchitherium; title: The invention of the horse collar; title: Jesus on Honshu; title: The slump; title: The sea's green sameness; title: The Bulgarian poetess; title: The hermit; title: I am dying, Egypt, dying; title: Separating; title: Gesturing; title: Killing; title: Problems; title: The man who loved extinct mammals; title: Love song for a Moog Synthesizer.