John Updike

To the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig . . . each reed of thatch, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass.” All of these stories, each in its own way, partake of this glow, as life beyond …

The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.

The Carpentered Hen is the first poetry collection by John Updike, published by Harper in 1958.