Early Stories, 1953-1975

"Among the more trenchant reminders here is that early Updike...was very, very good....Another is that Updike stood almost alone among the writers of his time in not thinking that suburban Americans were uninteresting or insipid, and in never mistaking the inhabitants for the surroundings. But the overarching (and somewhat depressing) conclusion is that Updike is one of the few American authors for whom writerly craft remains the essence of fiction....[H]is filigreed sentences remind us what an outright pleasure it is to engage the refined sensibility of a writer who attempts to reflect on things in an interesting way instead of thinking himself interesting because of what he reflects on....[O]ne reads through the plenitude with delight, expectation, and at all times gratitude."Updike, John is the author of 'Early Stories, 1953-1975', published 2003 under ISBN 9781400040728 and ISBN 1400040728.