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John Updike

The Same Door

Short Stories

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The title of John Updike's first short story collection, published when the author was twenty-seven, alludes to the old superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door. Thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story here, is also the narrator of the last. Yet there is a sense in which all sixteen of these stories knock at the same door, a door that in Dentistry and Doubt swings open, and in Toward Evening remains shut. The characters are polite, nervous, diffident, as if life-or at least youth, for they are all young-were a discomfiting wait in the anteroom of the absolute. The majority of thes… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-679-64579-5
  • EAN: 9780679645795
  • Produktnummer: 15719085
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'955 KB

Über den Autor


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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