Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1959. 242 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear visible in photos. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear. Light toning present to the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The title of John Updikes first short story collection, published when the author was twenty-seven, alludes to the old superstition that you should enter and leave a house by the same door. Thus John Nordholm, the alternately shy and brash hero of the first story here, is also the narrator of the last. Yet there is a sense in which all sixteen of these stories knock at the same door, a door that in Dentistry and Doubt swings open, and in Toward Evening remains shut. The characters are polite, nervous, diffident, as if lifeor at least youth, for they are all youngwere a discomfiting wait in the anteroom of the absolute. The majority of these stories depict encounters between strangers and their unexpected effects, which can be as concrete as a roomful of flowers or a bottle of wine, or as intangible as a miracle or a dream.
Price: 120 USD
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: John Updike
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1959
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Literature; Short Stories; John Updike, The Same Door
Author: John Updike
Personalized: No
Region: North America
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Literature; Short Stories; John Updike
Unit Quantity: 1
Character Family: The Same Door
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