Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens With Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the depression in a small...Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens With Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the depression in a small pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, early marriage and young families, and Finally Updike's experimental stories on 'the single life'.