Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen
classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous
chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich
emotional complexity.In 1956, Updike published a story, 'Snowing
in Greenwich Village,' about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple,
at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years
together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness,
and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen
Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted
by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, 'Grandparenting,'
which returns us to the Maples's lives long after their wrenching
divorce.
