Problems and Other Stories

Type

Book

Authors

John Updike

ISBN 10

0449243605

ISBN 13

9780449243602

Tags

english, anglais, fiction, literature, littérature, american, Short Stories

Abstract

In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive, longing, or reproachful. None of these characters is innocent, and all are looking vainly for the road back to an imagined Paradise. Pain and comedy closely coexist in this mainly domestic world of the 1970s, where life is indistinguishable from a television commercial (but what is it advertising?) and every morning's paper brings news of lost Atlantises.

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Sommaire :
- Commercial
- Minutes of the Last Meeting
- Believers
- The Gun Shop
- How to Love American and Leave it at the Same Time
- Nevada
- Son
- Daughter, Last Glimpses of
- Ethiopia
- Transaction
- Separating
- Augustine's Concubine
- The Man Loved Extincts Mamals
- Problems
- Domestic Life in America
- Love Song, for a Moog Synthesizer
- From the Journal of a Leper
- Here Come the Maples
- The Fairy Goodfathers
- The Faint
- The Egg Race
- Guilt-Gems
- Atlantises

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