Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories, (Paperback)

from SigmundFraud

The Maple Stories is a collection of John Updike's earlier stories. Though stories they are related, evolve chronologically and read like a novel.A "novel" of manners we follow the life of Joan and Richard Maple from marriage and four children through divorce and remarriage. I can't say the stori...

from Dlmcgow

Wonderful collection of stories that gives the reader an intimate look at middle-class Boston in the middle of the 20th century. As I reader, I became engrossed in the family life of the Maples and the success of their relationship. I was fascinated by the various angles Updike used to paint a li...

from ValerieAndBooks

Richard and Joan Maple are a fictional couple who author John Updike revisited, in short-story form, many times over the span of Updike's long and productive literary career. All of the Maples stories are gathered together here in this Everyman's Pocket Classics edition, in basic chronological or...

from AshRyan

In the introduction to this collection of stories about the disintegration of the marriage of Richard and Joan Maple, Updike says their moral is that "nothing is perfect." That is of course true in a sense, but such a trivial one that we hardly need Updike to tell us so. The real message is that ...