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 ...
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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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Add this copy of Problems and Other Stories to cart. $75.16, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Add this copy of Problems: and Other Stories to cart. $97.75, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Fawcett.
Add this copy of Problems and Other Stories to cart. $125.00, new condition, Sold by Books Of Choice rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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As new book in an as new dust jacket. Signed by the author. 260 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Updike. His 22nd book and 5th book of short stories. 23 short stories dealing with divorce, remarriage, relatives, prostitution, leprosy, extinct mammal and much more. Signed by Updike on the first sheet. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Add this copy of Problems and Other Stories to cart. $225.00, new condition, Sold by Books Of Choice rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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As new book in an as new dust jacket and a fine slipcase. Signed by the author. 260 pages. First limited edition. One (163) of 350 numbered copies signed by Updike on the limitation page at the beginning of the book. His 22nd book and 5th book of short stories. 23 short stories dealing with divorce, remarriage, relatives, prostitution, leprosy, extinct mammal and much more. As new book in an as new dust jacket in an as new slipcase. A beautiful copy!