The Early Stories: 1953–1975 gathers a wide selection of John Updike’s short fiction from the first decades of his career, offering a detailed portrait of American life in the mid-20th century. Set in...

Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter,...

The hero of John Updike's *Rabbit, Run* (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in *Rabbit Redux* (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of...