Museums and Women, and Other Stories

by John Updike

Book Overview

Museums & Woman And Other Stories, by Updike, John This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394481739
• ISBN13: 9780394481739
• Release Date: September 1972
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Updike Experiments

It is, of course, a crime that any book by John Updike should be out of print. Nevertheless, this selection (first published in 1972) is not the vintage Updike of, say, The Music School or Trust Me. The famous Maples are here, in all their angst-ridden glory (these stories, it should be said, have since been reprinted in a volume of their own), and there is the familiar range of vignettes and meditations in classic Updike mode; but there is more experimental material too - and few readers will find it uniformly successful. A Jurassic age dinner party given by dinosaurs? Actually, I thought this one a gem. But others - such as 'Jesus on Honshu' - I thought fell somewhat flat: big ideas, perhaps, done inadequate justice by the short (in some cases, very short) story form. Nevertheless, for those interested in Updike's development as the maestro of the American short story, I would have thought Museums and Women an ultimately indispensable book. Flawed but fascinating.