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 Dave

Here's the story from The New Yorket, published many decades ago, by John Updike: [URL not allowed] I read it decades ago and listened to it three times over the weekend and liked it more each time. Readby the author, here! [URL not allowed] It's about a ni......more

Goodreads review by Anatoly

Lifeguard by John Updike Review In the story “Lifeguard” by John Updike Review the narrator is the rescuer who literally perches above the rest of the society, looks down, observes. It gives us an eloquent overview of how society works. Here is the link to the text of the story: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by William

The moral and metaphysical questions are endemic to humanity, regardless of stature or environment.......more

Goodreads review by Peeter

Paar lugu keskel on head, kuid üldjuhul on tegu suhteliselt mõttetu harjutusega. Mul on tunne, et tõlge on ka suhteliselt kehva, kuid ei võrrelnud.......more

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