Author:
Updike, John, author.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2013]
Descriptionx, 955 pages ; 21 cm.
Note:Ace in the hole -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A game of Botticelli -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth -- Dentistry and doubt -- The kid's whistling -- Toward evening -- Snowing in Greenwich Village -- Who made yellow roses yellow? -- His finest hour -- Sunday teasing -- The lucid eye in silver town -- A trillion feet of gas -- Incest -- A gift from the city -- Intercession -- The alligators -- The happiest I've been -- Walter Briggs -- The persistence of desire -- Still life -- Flight -- Should Wizard hit Mommy? -- Dear Alexandros -- A sense of shelter -- Wife-wooing -- Pigeon feathers -- Home -- Archangel -- The sea's green sameness -- 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 -- Unstuck -- In football season -- The Indian -- A madman -- My uncle's death -- Solitaire -- Leaves -- The stare -- Museums and women -- Avec la bebe-sitter -- Four sides of one story -- The morning -- At a bar in Charlotte Amalie -- The Christian roommates -- My lover has dirty fingernails -- Eclipse -- Harv is plowing now -- The music school -- The rescue -- The dark -- God speaks -- The Bulgarian poetess -- The family meadow -- Man and daughter in the cold -- The hermit -- During the Jurassic -- The witnesses -- The pro -- The slump -- Under the microscope -- The corner -- The day of the dying rabbit -- I am dying, Egypt, dying -- Cemeteries -- The deacon -- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me -- One of my generation -- The hillies -- The orphaned swimming pool -- Plumbing -- The carol sing -- Minutes of the last meeting -- The baluchitherium -- The Tarbox police -- When everyone was pregnant -- The beloved -- The invention of the horse collar -- Jesus on Honshu -- Commercial -- The gun shop -- Believers -- How to love America and leave it at the same time -- Nevada -- Son -- Daughter, last glimpses of -- Ethiopia -- Transaction -- Augustine's concubine -- Killing -- The chaste planet -- A constellation of events -- The man who loved extinct mammals -- Problems -- Love song, for a Moog synthesizer.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 910-911) and index.
Note:Collects over one hundred of the author's short stories from the early portion of his career.
