The John Updike Audio Collection 2004 torrent

Category: Literature
Language: English
Written by John Updike
Read by John Updike, Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 5 hours and 46 minutes

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 Ipswich, 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.”