Collected Early Stories

Updike, John

ISBN 10: 1598532510 / ISBN 13: 9781598532517

Published by Library of America, 2013

About this Item

NY: The Library of America (LOA), 2013. Hard cover no DJ in slipcase sealed in shrinkwrap (see images). Size 5.5 x 8.5 inches. This edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.LOA (# 242) books are distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House". Book condition: New and unread. "Of the 102 stories gathered here, eighty first appeared in The New Yorker. Most were revised by the author for his collections The Same Door (1959), Pigeon Feathers (1962), The Music School (1966), Museums and Women (1972), Problems (1979), and The Early Stories (2003). All were written from 1953 to 1975, when Updike was in his twenties, thirties, and early forties, and are arranged here, for the first time, in the order in which they were completed. Each is offered in its latest, definitive text, and some incorporate posthumous corrections found in Updike s personal copies of his books. Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Early Stories
• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598532510
• ISBN 13: 9781598532517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Short Novels
  • Library of America

About this title

Synopsis

The Library of America presents the first of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are  102 classic stories that chart Updike’s emergence as America’s foremost practitioner of the short story, “our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described him. Based on new archival research, each story is presented in its final definitive form and in order of composition, established here for the first time.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

About the Author

Christopher Carduff is the editor of John Updike’s posthumous collections Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism (2011) and Always Looking: Essays on Art (2012), and has been a consulting editor for The Library of America since 2006. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts.