John Updike

A RomanceMarry Me is subtitled ';A Romance' because, in the author's words, ';people don't act like that anymore.' The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others. A...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updikes career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.In 1956, Updike published a story, Snowing in Greenwich Village, about a young couple, Joan and Richard...

And Other StoriesMuseums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike's most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras...

Short StoriesThe title of John Updike's first short story collection, published when the author was twenty-seven, alludes to the old superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door. Thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story here, is also the narrator of the last. Yet there is a sense in...

A NovelThe hero of John Updike's first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhousea county home for the aged and infirmoverseen by Stephen Conner, a righteous young man who considers it his duty to know what is best for others. The...

And Other Stories';Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.' That's how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In My Father's Tears, the author revisits his signature characters,...