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The Maples Stories

BookHardcover
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF27.90

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Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-84159-603-7
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
Publishing date26/06/2009
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Pages256 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 124 mm, Height 190 mm, Thickness 20 mm
Weight292 g
Article no.6158889
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.17606441
Product groupBelletristik
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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.