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The John Updike Audio Collection

Written by: John Updike
Narrated by: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, John Updike
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 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 Ipswich, 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."

©2003 John Updike (P)2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Education Essays Literary Fiction Parents & Adult Children Short Stories

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PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, 2004

"One expects the two distinguished actors narrating this collection, Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander, to deliver sterling performances, and they do." (AudioFile)

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