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The Bulgarian Poetess

Audiobook

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me — to give the mundane its beautiful due."


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Publisher: Caedmon Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780061962332
  • File size: 17626 KB
  • Release date: August 11, 2009
  • Duration: 00:36:43

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780061962332
  • File size: 17631 KB
  • Release date: August 11, 2009
  • Duration: 00:36:43
  • Number of parts: 1

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me — to give the mundane its beautiful due."


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Caedmon
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780061962332
    File size: 17626 KB
    Release date: August 11, 2009
    Duration: 00:36:43

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780061962332
    File size: 17631 KB
    Release date: August 11, 2009
    Duration: 00:36:43
    Number of parts: 1

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English