These John Updike short stories include "Friends from Philadelphia", "Sunday Teasing", "The Persistence of Desire", "The Other Woman" and "Brother Grasshopper".
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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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Friends From Philadelphia,
This review is from: Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories (Penguin 60s S.) (Paperback)
If you have wondered what John Updike's style of writing is like and wish to dip your toes into the delights of his sharp, adept prose, then this may well be a good place to start. This is a short anthology with five of his short stories and instantly I was drawn into his writing and the emotions he imparts so well. These reminded me, in part, of the short stories of Richard Yates in `Eleven Kinds of Loneliness' and I would say if you enjoy one author, then it is a reasonable bet you will like the other. There is something almost deliciously sad about the stories on offer and I can imagine myself reading them again during the autumn in that half light of evening, the stories here make you feel that way. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this short book and now I have whetted my appetite I will most definitely be trying some more. I only wish I was still in touch with a long gone, dear friend of mine so I could share that sense of delight I feel when finding a new, wonderful author.
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