The Early Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Wives, Parents and children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, New York City, Marriage, Friendship, Adultery, Small-town life, Single people, Suburban life
By the time he reached the age of seventy in 2002, John Updike had built a secure reputation as novelist, poet, and critic, rivaled perhaps only by his close contemporary Philip Roth as a chronicler of American society and politics in the second half of the twentieth century. As Updike suggests in his foreword toThe Early Stories: 1953-1975, however, his career—if not his reputation—was built upon the short stories, many of them very short indeed, published here together for the first time. Like two other famous Johns before him—O’Hara in the 1930’s and Cheever in the...
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