The Alligators (Creative Short Stories) [Hardcover]

John Updike (Author)

Book Description

Series: Creative Short Stories | Publication Date: January 1989

Charlie joins the others in his fifth grade class in tormenting and ridiculing the unpopular new girl Joan, until a strange dream prompts him to treat her differently.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Creative Co (Sd) (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886823587
• ISBN-13: 978-0886823580
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,078,407 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 lived in Massachusetts. He was the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. John Updike died on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76.

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4.0 out of 5 stars unusual and exciting and absorbing John Updike novel, June 17, 1998

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This review is from: The Alligators (Creative Short Stories) (Hardcover)

I like this book very much. It helped me to understand the other works and outlook on John Updike. His style of writing is not complicated for foreign readers, and here in Ukraine, this novel is very popular