|
American Masters: The Short Stories of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike
|
 |
Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
List Price: $29.95
This item is currently not available.
|
What's unique about American Masters is that it's such a complete work of art. Not only are the stories well written and thought provoking, but the narrators are perfectly suited to their tasks. Each voice is like the bass note of a complex symphony--whenever your mind begins to wander, swimming within the tones of the various worlds composed, t... »
|
|
The Afterlife and Other Stories
|
 |
Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
List Price: $17.00
This item is currently not available.
|
This anthology was my introduction to a man who was one of my favorite authors back in the 1990's. The play on words in the title refers not to the literal afterlife of cosmology, but that period of human life when one is past a certain age, and all is done but one still lives, children raised, career finished, premature death no longer a possibility. ... »
|
|
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
|
 |
Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
List Price: $25.00
Our Price:
$25.00
You Save: $0
Usually ships in 24 hours
|
At age 67, the perennially youthful John Updike may at last qualify as something of an elder statesman. But the Best American Short Stories annual--whose greatest hits package Updike has now assembled--is almost a generation older, having commenced publication in 1915. This staying power allows the hefty Best American Short Stories of the Cen... »
|
|
S.
_S_ is a series of letters by Sarah Worth, the wife of a philandering doctor, to her husband, her daughter, her mother, and others. Sarah even sends tape... »
|
Golf Dreams
How lucky can an editor be? When legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn wanted a writer to review a book on golf, he could turn to novelist John... »
|
A Month of Sundays
For those of you who have come to admire Updike's work, especially from the Rabbit Series, this novel will come as a disappointment. The story of Reverend... »
|
Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit is Rich is a vast compendium of detail and more detail about American life in the 1979 and 1980. Updike clutters the novel with overviews of Consu... »
|
|
|
Buy American Masters Short Stories Afterlife Stories