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Title: Pigeon Feathers by John Updike ISBN: 0-449-91225-6 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Top of his craft
Comment: I'm a budding short story writer ,myself, and no course, no workshop, no amount of instruction can subsitute for the lessons one learns leafing through and ingesting these exquisite paragraphs of John Updike. I find myself, in this volume, more than other Updike works, reading and re-reading the prose, even emailing sections to friends, like a fine restaurant I want to tell people about. Like a band that plays exceptionally well live which you get to catch on a great night, Updike, here , is "on", he is at the absolute peak of his craft. I only wish there were more collections of short stories written as well as these.
Rating: 5
Summary: To Discover it again...
Comment: There is little, if anything, one is able to say that can possibly capture the beauty or majesty of a great Updike story. The gentle yet exact measure of his sentences, the bewilderingly complex yet infinitely fluid (and eventually near-epiphanic) weaving of narratives, his control of internal characterization--few are masters in the manner that John Updike is a master.
And this volume contains his greatest story--possibly what I feel to be the greatest piece of literature in all of latter-half 20th century American literature (and we're including it all here, not just short stories). The last story of the volume: Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Car, A Traded Car.
Enough with the theoretics and generalities here. This story can change your life. Or, at the very least, it can alter the way in which you interact with literature--what you can expect out of literature.
One piece of advice, though: read it in one sitting.
Seriously.
Don't get up, even just for a little while to fix something to eat. Don't read it bit by bit (it's long, so you may be tempted). And, whatever you do, don't look at the last page before it's time.
It may seem disjointed. It may seem an odd accumulation of narratives. Don't stop reading.
Two years, and a hundred readings later, I still haven't gotten over that first experience. What I wouldn't give to have it again...
Rating: 5
Summary: Ecstatic prose; magic from the end of a pen.
Comment: These stories are sublime. Read "Flight" and try not to grunt with pleasure! And let Archangel take you on a trip through the magic of words. Updike is at his best here. "Pigeon Feathers," the story for which the book is named, will astound you. Each story is a gem. If you want to read fiction that is beyond the assembly-line garbage...far, far beyond...read this book. See for yourself that America is still producing world-class literature. If you are a writer of short stories, make this your Bible.
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Title: Afterlife by John Updike ISBN: 0449912019 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) by John Updike ISBN: 0679444599 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 17 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Self-Consciousness by John Updike ISBN: 044921821X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Toward the End of Time by John Updike ISBN: 0449000419 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 25 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Centaur by John Updike ISBN: 0449912167 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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