Pigeon Feathers & Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Updike, John

• Book ID: 109301153
• Publisher: Knopf; Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 267 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679645764

✦ Synopsis

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."