Olinger Stories by John Updike - ISBN: 9781841596181
Hardcover
Updike’s heart: one character’s life from boyhood to manhood.

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  • Hardcover

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    15 September 2014

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Summary

The first one-volume hardcover edition of the eleven autobiographical stories that were closest to Updike’s heart.

With full-cloth binding and a silk ribbon marker.

EVERYMAN’S POCKET CLASSICS.

In an interview, Updike once said, “If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories.” These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various collections before Vintage first put them together in one volume in 1964, as a pap…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841596181
ISBN-10:1841596183
Author:John Updike
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:15 September 2014
Weight:267g
Dimensions:190mm x 124mm x 18mm
Series:Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
About The Author

John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. 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. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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