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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Fiction Short stories Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Updike |
ISBN: | 9780679645764 0679645764 |
OCLC Number: | 813847894 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Walter Briggs -- The persistence of desire -- Still life -- Flight -- Should wizard hit Mommy? -- A sense of shelter -- Dear Alexandros -- Wife-wooing -- Pigeon feathers -- Home -- Archangel -- You'll never know, dear, how much I love you -- The astronomer -- A & P -- The doctor's wife -- Lifeguard -- The crow in the woods -- The blessed man of Boston, my grandmother's thimble, and Fanning Island -- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car. |
Responsibility: | John Updike. |
Abstract:
When this classic collection of stories first appeared'in 1962, on the author's thirtieth birthday'Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: "Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. ... The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. ... Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike's fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight."
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