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The Same Door
''The Same Door'' is the first collection of John Updike's short stories in book form. It was published in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf. This was the year after his first novel, ''The Poorhouse Fair'', was published by the same company, a house he was to remain with for 50 years. Contents The book consists of 16 stories, all previously published in ''The New Yorker'' between 1954 and 1959, some in somewhat different form according to the title page. The stories appeared in the magazine in the order in which they appear in the book. Themes The stories are divided into stories with a boyish protagonist set in either an unnamed small town or Olinger, Pennsylvania—the fictional name Updike gave to his hometown—and stories set mostly in New York and other cities, including London, with a young adult man often at the center. Stories The sixteens stories are: *"Friends from Philadelphia"—an Olinger story *"Ace in the Hole" This story prefigures '' Rabbit, Run'' in having an ex-high s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabbit, Run
''Rabbit, Run'' is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. It spawned several sequels, including ''Rabbit Redux'', ''Rabbit is Rich'' and ''Rabbit at Rest'', as well as a related 2001 novella, ''Rabbit Remembered''. In these novels, Updike takes a comical and retrospective look at the relentless questing life of Rabbit against the background of the major events of the latter half of the 20th century. Plot summary Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, formerly a high school basketball star, is now 26, and has a job selling a kitchen gadget named MagiPeeler. He is married to Janice, who was a salesgirl at the store where he once worked, and who is now pregnant. They live in Mount Judge, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Brewer, and have a two-year-old son named Nelson. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Short Story Collections
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Short Story Collections By John Updike
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York City. Overview The ''New York Times'' has published a book review section since October 10, 1896, announcing: "We begin today the publication of a Supplement which contains reviews of new books ... and other interesting matter ... associated with news of the day." In 1911, the review was moved to Sundays, on the theory that it would be more appreciatively received by readers with a bit of time on their hands. The target audience is an intelligent, general-interest adult reader. The ''Times'' publishes two versions each week, one with a cover price sold via subscription, bookstores and newsstands; the other with no cover price included as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigeon Feathers
''Pigeon Feathers'' is an early collection of short stories by John Updike, published in 1962. It includes the stories "Wife-Wooing" and " A&P", which have both been anthologized. " A&P" and the title story, "Pigeon Feathers", were both adapted into films (see below). List of stories * "Walter Briggs" * "The Persistence of Desire" * "Still Life" * "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" * "Blocked dirt, creeperslaying, My sword's Hilt, and Nether Island" * "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car" Film adaptations The short story "Pigeon Feathers" was adapted into a film and presented in 1988 on the Public Broadcasting American Playhouse series. It was directed by Sharron Miller and starre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Trillion Feet Of Gas
“A Trillion Feet of Gas” is a work of short fiction by John Updike first appearing in The New Yorker on December 8, 1956. The story was collected The Same Door (1959), published by Alfred A. Knopf. Plot An American couple, Luke and Liz Forrest, want to introduce a visiting English friend to an authentic American billionaire. They take him to a dinner party where he meets a Texan businessman, John Born. The Forrests and their friend, Donald King, and Mr. Born discuss the recent re-election of President Dwight David Eisenhower and a gas bill that the President vetoed earlier in the year. The history that provoked Updike to write a story about such a conversation has been largely forgotten in the intervening half century, but at that time he was able to assume most of his readers would know that on February 6, 1956, Senator Francis Case of South Dakota had said on the U.S. Senate floor that a lobbyist for a natural gas company had left $2500 in cash in an envelope waiting for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?
''Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?'' is a work of short fiction by the novelist John Updike, first appearing in The New Yorker on March 30, 1956. It was published in his 1959 collection ''The Same Door''. Plot As the story begins, Fred Platt, the focal character, is about to place a telephone call to a college friend he hasn't seen in years. Platt, as the opening sentence indicates, comes from "old money"—is three generations removed from its accumulation. He wants to acquire a job without the contaminating hand of his father's connections: Accordingly, he calls his old friend Clayton Thomas Clayton, a man of merely petty-bourgeois heritage, who has achieved genuine prosperity: He has risen to executive status in the advertising wing of an immense chemical company. Platt feels that Clayton owes him a favor because while at university he had facilitated his membership in an elite campus journal, the ''Quaff''. The staff had disparaged the socially inept Clayton, but were compelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Far To Go
''Too Far to Go'' is a collection of short stories by the American author John Updike published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC network with Blythe Danner, Michael Moriarty, Kathryn Walker and Glenn Close. The linked stories focus upon the marriage and eventual divorce of Richard and Joan Maple and depict a 1960s New York City and New England milieu through the 1970s typical of much of Updike's fiction. Many of the stories were initially published as occasional stories in ''The New Yorker'' from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. The story "Your Lover Just Called" was later adapted into a playlet by Updike himself. It is included in his collection ''More Matter'' (1999). Most of these stories were also included in Updike's 2003 collection '' The Early Stories'', except those published after 1975; namely, "Waiting Up", "The Red-Herring Theory", "Divorcing: A Fragment", and "Here Come the Maples". In August 2009, Everyman's Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olinger Stories
''Olinger Stories: A selection'' is a short story collection by John Updike. It was first published by Vintage Books Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was purchased by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random Hous ... in 1964. Summary The volume contained only one story —"In Football Season"—newly published and otherwise brings together material from Updike's previous collections. Stories The short stories, set in the fictional town of Olinger, Pennsylvania are in large part autobiographical, about a boy growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, as Updike did. In an early interview, Updike once said, "they ''are'' dear to me, and if I had to give anyone one book of me it would be the Vintage ''Olinger Stories''." On ''Olinger Stories'' In the Vintage edition foreword, Updike explains, "Three of these stories are fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in ''The New Yorker'' starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for '' The New York Review of Books''. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels '' Rabbit, Run''; ''Rabbit Redux''; '' Rabbit Is Rich''; '' Rabbit at Rest''; and the novella '' Rabbit Remembered''), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both ''Rabbit Is Rich'' (1981) and ''Rabbit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
