New American Short Stories

by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever

John Updike - A & PFlannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must ConvergeJohn Cheever - The Enormous RadioSaul Bellow - A Father-to-BeBernard Malamud - The MournersJoyce Carol Oates - Out of Place

Genres: Short Stories

71 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships.

He died of lung cancer at age 76.

Reviews

[Linn]

Too old. Triggering language and beliefs. I really liked the last two: Bernard Malamud’s “The Mourners” and Joyce Carol Oates’ “Out of Place”.