Problems and Other Stories " Signed "

Updike, John

ISBN 10: 0394507053 / ISBN 13: 9780394507057

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1979

About this Item

1979. Hardback. Fine. Limited First Edition. First Print. This specially bound, printed and numbered edition is limited to 350 signed and copies. This is number 284. Book is encased in a slipcase. An excellent addition to your collection. Shows limited shelf ware. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

Seller Inventory # 10710

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Problems and Other Stories " Signed "
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394507053
• ISBN 13: 9780394507057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Book Type: Hardback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive, longing, or reproachful. None of these characters is innocent, and all are looking vainly for the road back to an imagined Paradise. Pain and comedy closely coexist in this mainly domestic world of the 1970s, where life is indistinguishable from a television commercial (but what is it advertising?) and every morning s paper brings news of lost Atlantises.

About the Author

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.