JOHN UPDIKE AUDIO COLLECTION (2003)

Read by . .: John Updike, Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander
Publisher .: Caedmon (2003)
ISBN . . . : 0060577215 / 9780060577216
Format . . : MP3.  16 tracks, 227 MB
Bitrate . .: ~90 kbps (iTunes 9, VBR, mono, 44 kHz)
Source . . : 5 CDs (6 hours)
Genre . . .: Fiction, Short Stories
Unabridged : Unabridged

Includes the Stories:
 - Killing
 - The Family Meadow
 - The Orphaned Swimming Pool
 - A&P
 - Gesturing
 - Snowing in Greenwich Village
 - The Bulgarian Poetess
 - The Persistence of Desire
 - The Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals
 - Lifeguard
 - Your Lover Just Called
 - Ace in the Hole 

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March 2010

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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."
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About the Author:
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of fifty-odd previous books, including twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His fiction has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.