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| AUTHOR: | JOHN UPDIKE |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Ballantine Books |
| ISBN: | 0449912256 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - General, Literary, Fiction / Literary |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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To Discover it again... There is little, if anything, one is able to say that can possibly capture the beauty or majesty of a great Updike story. The gentle yet exact measure of his sentences, the bewilderingly complex yet infinitely fluid (and eventually near-epiphanic) weaving of narratives, his control of internal characterization--few are masters in the manner that John Updike is a master.
And this volume contains his greatest story--possibly what I feel to be the greatest piece of literature in all of latter-half 20th century American literature (and we're including it all here, not just short stories). The last story of the volume: Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Car, A Traded Car.
Enough with the theoretics and generalities here. This story can change your life. Or, at the very least, it can alter the way in which you interact with literature--what you can expect out of literature.
One piece of advice, though: read it in one sitting.
Seriously.
Don't get up, even just for a little while to fix something to eat. Don't read it bit by bit (it's long, so you may be tempted). And, whatever you do, don't look at the last page before it's time.
It may seem disjointed. It may seem an odd accumulation of narratives. Don't stop reading.
Two years, and a hundred readings later, I still haven't gotten over that first experience. What I wouldn't give to have it again...
Is there a better book of stories anywhere?
If there is, you have my attention. Maybe Isaac Babel's Collected Stories or Fitzgerald's Selected Stories. I've been writing for 27 years; I may have written three sentences that compare with the average in an Updike story. In "Flight" he captures in several sentences more about family than I've discovered through an entire life. Sorry for being self-referential; it's a measure of my awe. Updike's magic is that he can tell a story in a single sentence. If you only know Updike through his novels, you're in for a treat. By my lights, this is the greatest living story writer and this is the book that made that clear.
short stories
Good short stories from thr great Updike. Each one uniqely different.