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The Maples Stories by Updike, John

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A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the book cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Some identifying marks on the inside cover, but this is minimal. Very little wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
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IsTextBook
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ISBN
9780307271761

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307271765
ISBN-13
9780307271761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71612384

Product Key Features

Book Title
Maples Stories
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Updike
Book Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
7.4 in
Item Width
4.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Table Of Content
Foreword Snowing in Greenwich Village Wife-Wooing Giving Blood Twin Beds in Rome Marching Through Boston The Taste of Metal Your Lover Just Called Waiting Up Eros Rampant Plumbing The Red-Herring Theory Sublimating Nakedness Separating Gesturing Divorcing: A Fragment Here Come the Maples Grandparenting Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, "Grandparenting," which returns us to the Maples's lives long after their wrenching divorce., Eighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, "Grandparenting," which returns us to the Maples's lives long after their wrenching divorce.

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