Lifeguard, John Updike
Lifeguard, John Updike
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Lifeguard
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection

Author: John Updike

Narrator: John Updike

Unabridged: 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 08/11/2009

Synopsis

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, ""I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due.""

About John Updike

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 author of fifty-odd previous books, including twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His fiction has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lain on November 28, 2011

Oh my goodness, but this was bad! I love James Patterson, but I won't be looking for a book co-authored by Andrew Gross any time soon. And, guys? We are smart. Smart enough NOT to need you to repeat people's names in every line of dialog ad nauseum. It is one of my pet peeves. Like, "Ellie, did you......more

Goodreads review by Suzzie on June 26, 2018

Decent book. Quick little summer read but honestly I didn’t enjoy it as much as I hoped I would. Not as intriguing or attention grabbing as some of the other Patterson books but it was an okay book. Quick read though so not a waste of reading time at all. My quick and simple overall: would have like......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on August 31, 2023

One of the best from the author, in my humble opinion with no match in the Women's Murder Club series: the plot is promising, characters (Ellie, Sollie and Ned) are alive and wake empathy, the style is simple and allert, and, of course, the final is a happy one. On the other hand, there are quite a......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on October 12, 2023

This was a quick, easy, and fun adventure story. I like James Patterson, although I can’t read too many of his books in a row, and I love that he partnered with lesser known authors. I don’t think I would say this was a new favorite of his, but I’m on vacation and this definitely fit the bill for a......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on November 04, 2019

Lifeguard, by James Patterson and Andrew Gross, is a good, quick, action-packed read. Art theft and murder with romance thrown in. Patterson is one of my go to author's when I want an enjoyable quick read.......more

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