3.5
Museums & Women and Other Stories
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Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras of middle-class life, especially life in a fictional New England enclave called Tarbox. The illustrated jeux d’esprit in the section called “Other Modes” place Updike somewhere between Robert Benchley and Donald Barthelme as a toymaker in prose. Crowning the collection are five scenes from the marriage of Richard and Joan Maple, a story sequence with the narrative interest and cumulative power of a novel.
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3.5
“Updike has a lyrical writing style that glides through like poetry. This book of short stories was my first Updike read & I am glad I picked it up. My two favourite stories from this collection that touched me are "Museums & Women" and "Solitaire". I absolutely loved the fact how he says such profound thing in just a few words & it leaves an impact on the reader. I am surely going to read more of Updike now! Loved it!”
“Though they seem difficult to start with, Updike's stories grow upon you and you realize them to be not just stories but finer impressions of life.”
About 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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