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"A&P" is a tragicomic work of short fiction by John Updike which first appeared in the July 22, 1961 issue of The New Yorker. The story was collected in Pigeon Feathers in 1961, published by Alfred A. Knopf .
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
“‘Pigeon Feathers’ demonstrates a masterful command of language and technique. In only his second collection, Updike is sufficiently comfortable with the short story form to experiment with a variety of narrative strategies, especially variations on first-person narration such as the epistolary story, the lyrical meditation, and the [literary] montage...the lyrical meditation is ...
The following is the complete bibliography of John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), an American novelist, poet, critic and essayist noted for his prolific output over a 50-year period. His bibliography includes some 23 novels , 18 short story collections, 12 collections of poetry , 4 children's books, and 12 collections of non ...
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A&P (short story) Ace in the Hole (short story) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ... Short stories by John Updike.
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“For all the novels, the stories, the journalism, essays, poetry, wit and wisdom, his understanding of the US and of life, readers can only thank him. John Updike has taken his final bow with a swan song worthy of his genius.” —Literary critic Eileen Battersby from “The Master Takes a Final Bow” in The Irish Times, June 20, 2009.</ref>