{"product_id":"the-maples-stories-hardcover","title":"The Maples Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Updike\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1956, Updike published a story, \"Snowing in Greenwich Village,\" about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled \u003ci\u003eToo Far to Go, \u003c\/i\u003e prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, \"Grandparenting,\" which returns us to the Maples's lives long after their wrenching divorce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rabbit at Rest, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 7.22 x 4.88 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685060087871,"sku":"9780307271761","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6eaae167883c14e729c3f97bb1c17462.webp?v=1764969732","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-maples-stories-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}