Olinger Stories

Resumen del libro

The first one-volume hardcover edition of the eleven autobiographical stories that were closest to Updike's heart. With full-cloth binding and a silk ribbon marker. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS.

In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various collections before Vintage first put them together in one volume in 1964, as a paperback original. They follow the life of one character from the age of ten through manhood, in the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger (pronounced, according to Updike, with a long O and a hard G), which was loosely based on Updike's own hometown. "All the stories draw from the same autobiographical well," Updike explained, "the only child, the small town, the grandparental home, the move in adolescence to a farm." The selection was made and arranged by Updike himself, and was prefaced by a lovely 1,400-word essay by the author that has never been reprinted in full elsewhere until now.

Biografía del autor

John Updike (Shillington, Pennsylvania, 1932-Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 2009) es uno de los grandes maestros de la narrativa norteamericana contemporánea, autor de una vasta obra que abarca poesía y ensayo, narración breve y novela. Galardonado en dos ocasiones con el Premio Pulitzer (1982 y 1991) y en una con el American Book Award (1982), se le considera uno de los más ácidos cronistas de la sociedad estadounidense de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Tusquets Editores ha publicado un total de diecinueve obras de este autor, entre ellas Un libro de Bech, el primer título de la trilogía protagonizada por el mordaz y tierno alter ego apenas disimulado del propio Updike. En esta segunda entrega, Bech trastea por la vida como bien puede, cargado de miedos y dudas, pero también de un sentido del humor que lo hace todo más llevadero. Un libro para reírse de nuestras pequeñas " o grandes" miserias y esperanzas, escrito con la lucidez de un genio de la literatura contemporánea.