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The John Updike Audio Collection

Audiobook
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me - to give the mundane its beautiful due."


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Publisher: HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged
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OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780060754167
  • File size: 164921 KB
  • Release date: March 2, 2004
  • Duration: 05:43:35

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780060754167
  • File size: 164938 KB
  • Release date: March 2, 2004
  • Duration: 05:45:33
  • Number of parts: 5

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MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me - to give the mundane its beautiful due."


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    HarperAudio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780060754167
    File size: 164921 KB
    Release date: March 2, 2004
    Duration: 05:43:35

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780060754167
    File size: 164938 KB
    Release date: March 2, 2004
    Duration: 05:45:33
    Number of parts: 5

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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