The Maples Stories
Mature
Audio only

The Maples Stories

By John UpdikeNarrated by Peter Van Norden
Length5h 50m

About this audiobook

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 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.

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length5 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byPeter Van Norden
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 1, 2009
LanguageEnglish

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