Author:
Updike, John, author.
ImprintNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2013]
Descriptionix, 994 pages ; 21 cm.
Note:Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- The fairy godfathers -- The egg race -- The parade -- The faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- The city -- Learn a trade -- The ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First wives and trolley cars -- The other -- One more interview -- Slippage -- Poker night -- Made in heaven -- Getting into the set -- The wallet -- The other woman -- Beautiful husbands -- Leaf season -- The afterlife -- Wildlife -- The burglar alarm -- Conjunction -- Brother grasshopper -- Spat -- The journey to the dead -- The football factory -- Part of the process -- The lens factory -- The man who became a soprano -- Short Easter -- A sandstone farmhouse -- The other side of the street -- Aperto, chiuso -- Tristan and Iseult -- Farrell's caddie -- The rumor -- Falling asleep up north -- The brown chest -- His mother inside him -- Bluebeard in Ireland -- Baby's first step -- Playing with dynamite -- Scenes from the fifties -- The black room -- Cruise -- The women who got away -- Lunch hour -- New York girl -- The cats -- My father on the verge of disgrace -- Licks of love in the heart of the Cold War -- Oliver's evolution -- Natural color -- How was it, really? -- Metamorphosis -- Personal archaeology -- Free -- The guardians -- The walk with Elizanne -- The laughter of the gods -- Varieties of religious experience -- Spanish prelude to a second marriage -- Delicate wives -- The accelerating expansion of the universe -- German lessons -- The road home -- My father's tears -- Kinderszenen -- The apparition -- Blue light -- Outage -- The full glass.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 948-949) and index.
Note:Collects some of the author's short stories from the later portion of his career.
