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TONI MORRISON

Francine Prose

JOHN UPDIKE

Ed Park

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Russell Banks

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Harpercollins

<p>The celebrated contemporary American writer probes the processes and failures of human communication and interaction</p>

The Same Door

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike’s fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight.”

Pigeon Feathers

Literary

Penguin

The Centaur

Genre Fiction

At the County Home for the Aged, the inmates, having shed their cares and responsibilities, live out their remaining years. On the day of the Poorhouse Fair the order is broken and the old people take charge. It is a day neither Conner, the poorhouse prefect, nor his charges will forget.

The Poorhouse Fair

Contemporary

Of the Farm

In BECH: A BOOK, John Updike delineates a famous writer who, at early middle-age, has published his best work and now watches helplessly as "his reputation grows while his powers decline." Bech's final cross, if we may, is his induction into the National Academy of Arts and Letters...a reminder that when we start collecting honors, our most productive work, whether personal or corporate, is usually wrapped in the folds of an unkind history.

Bech: A Book

Museums and Women

Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellelou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives.

The Coup

Joan and Richard Maple confess infidelities, join a Boston civil rights march, take a trip to their in-laws, to the beach, to Rome, and after 20 years attempt to explain to their four children why they have decided to separate.

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