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Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

Published
Mar 1962
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General Fiction General Fiction
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189

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When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author's thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: "Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike's fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight."

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Jan 1986 Fawcett ISBN 0449211320
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Oct 1981 Random House ISBN 0449239519
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Sep 1996 Ballantine ISBN 0449912256
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Mar 1962 Knopf ISBN 0394440560
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Dec 1996 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN 0783818564
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