The John Updike Audio Collection
- Author: John Updike
- Narrator: John Updike
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 5:44:27
Synopsis
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.
In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due."
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 16min -
Chapter 002
Duration: 29min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 15min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 31min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 25min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 36min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 25min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 17min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 21min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 16min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 21min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 57min -
sample-502
Duration: 01min