The Same Door, Short Stories [Paperback]

John Updike (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 241 pages
• Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (August 12, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394747631
• ISBN-13: 978-0394747637
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,455,891 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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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting collection, May 30, 2002

By A Customer

Although not his best collection of short stories, this one has a few gems, among them, "The Happiest I've Been," about a college student home for Christmas break, watching his past and future merge in his home, at a party and in his car. For this story alone, the book is worth picking up.