Problems And Other Stories Harper Press devastating war is on the

devastating war is on the horizon

and a beautiful home in the Cathedral Close of Rosington

under inexplicable circumstances - with Ig the only suspect

and a protagonist seeking to do the right thing in the face of a brutal political machine

Problems And Other Stories Harper Press devastating war is on theIn this midcareer collection of twenty three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive, longing, or reproachful. None of these characters is innocent, and all are looking vainly for the road back to an imagined Paradise. Pain and comedy