Books with author John Updike

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by John UpdikeJohn Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published."A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story."Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds."The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America, a picnic reunion in New Jersey."The Witnesses" and "The Alligators" both deal with love, as felt by a middle-aged man and a fifth-grade boy."Separating" recounts the June day when Richard and Joan Maple separate, in front of their four children.Mr. Updike, when asked to described his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things describes, and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its own."The method works beautifully.

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the AuthorGolf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: "Golf is a trip."Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the peculiar charms of bad golf, and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle.John Updike has been writing about golf since he took the game up at the age of twenty-five. In the nearly forty years of pleasurable bafflement that have followed, he has composed essays for Golf Digest and short stories for The New Yorker concerning the sport.His memories, insights, and witty remarks make this a truly unique audiobook. John Updike will tell you, in his own voice and his own words, how he learned the game, plays the game, and loves the game.