The Maples Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780307271761)

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.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0307271765
ISBN-13: 9780307271761
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.22h x 4.88w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 06/11/2009 pg. 8