| Contents |
Museums and women -- The hillies -- The day of the dying rabbit -- The deacon -- I will not let thee go, except thou bless me -- The corner -- The witnesses -- Solitaire -- The orphaned swimming pool -- When everyone was pregnant -- Man and daughter in the cold -- I am dying, Egypt, dying -- The carol sing -- Plumbing -- The sea's green sameness -- The slump -- The pro -- One of my generation -- God speaks -- Under the microscope -- During the Jurassic -- The baluchitherium -- The invention of the horse collar -- Jesus on Honshu -- Marching through Boston -- The taste of metal -- Your lover just called -- Eros rampant -- Sublimating. |
| Local note | John Updike's reading copy at Wake Forest Universtiy. Inscribed on title page "for Stuart and Alexandra Wright ... All best wishes, John Updike 5/13/83." Laid in is an edited typescript from Stuart Wright for an introduction for John Updike at an unknown speaking event. Stuart Wright Book Collection #159.12. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, John Updike Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| References |
De Bellis and Broomfield. John Updike, A44d |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| LCCN | 81040080 |
| ISBN | 0394747623 |
| ISBN | 9780394747620 |
