Full name: Problems: And Other Stories

Author: John Updike Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780449211038 9780394507057 0449211037 0394507053

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. Similar books: The Early Stories by John Updike The Music School by John Updike Rich in Russia by John Updike The Maples Stories by John Updike The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout A Piece of Mine by J. California Cooper The Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper Some Soul To Keep by J. California Cooper I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann