The Maples Stories

The Maples StoriesBy: John Updike Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series Eighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexityfrom one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. In 1956, Updike published a story, Snowing in Greenwich Village, about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their

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