TY  - BOOK
AU  - Updike,John
TI  - Olinger stories: a selection 
T2  - Everyman's pocket classics
SN  - 9781841596181 (hbk.)
AV  - PS3571.P4 A6 2014
U1  - 813 UPD 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Everyman
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
KW  - FICTION / Coming of Age
N1  - "This is a Borzoi book."
N2  - "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. "--; "The fiftieth anniversary edition of John Updike's collection of semi-autobiographical stories about a small Pennsylania town, first published in paperback in 1964 and now in hardcover for the first time"--
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