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Title: Twin Beds in Rome
Author: John Updike
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-16-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming aluminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement.
As Richard and Joan Maple's story continues in this fourth story in the collection, their marriage is falling apart. Though both intensely desire separation, they continue to hold on to their broken relationship. So rather than get away from each other, they go away with each other - to Rome.
Members Reviews:
An Enjoyable Bitter Sweet Story About A Marriage In Flux
This story is the fourth short story by John Updike about a married couple "The Maples". As I understand it, Mr. Updike composed these stories over many years, not on an ongoing basis. This far I have enjoyed three of the first four very much. The one I did not care for is the second story, "Wife Wooing" although it was undeniably well written.
In "Twin Beds In Rome" the Maples are touring Rome. By now, if one has read the stories in order, the Maples have become a familiar couple to the reader. This story reminds me of other short stories that I have previously read by other authors about Americans visiting Rome. But the story has, what is becoming to me, a familiar Updike style, about a familiar couple. I do not wish to risk spoiling the reading experience.
I do wish to state that reading these stories in order has added a lot of perspective to them. I wish to add just one detail. In American English, there is an idiom stated "squaring the circle". It has to do with solving a seemingly very difficult or impossible problem. In this story, in passing, without flourish, Mr. Updike comments about the Maples that "They circled the square" while on a walking tour. By now I am convinced that Mr. Updike is far too clever an author not to have intentionally inserted this subtle play on words.
Thank You...
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Title: Twin Beds in Rome
Author: John Updike
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-16-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming aluminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement.
As Richard and Joan Maple's story continues in this fourth story in the collection, their marriage is falling apart. Though both intensely desire separation, they continue to hold on to their broken relationship. So rather than get away from each other, they go away with each other - to Rome.
Members Reviews:
An Enjoyable Bitter Sweet Story About A Marriage In Flux
This story is the fourth short story by John Updike about a married couple "The Maples". As I understand it, Mr. Updike composed these stories over many years, not on an ongoing basis. This far I have enjoyed three of the first four very much. The one I did not care for is the second story, "Wife Wooing" although it was undeniably well written.
In "Twin Beds In Rome" the Maples are touring Rome. By now, if one has read the stories in order, the Maples have become a familiar couple to the reader. This story reminds me of other short stories that I have previously read by other authors about Americans visiting Rome. But the story has, what is becoming to me, a familiar Updike style, about a familiar couple. I do not wish to risk spoiling the reading experience.
I do wish to state that reading these stories in order has added a lot of perspective to them. I wish to add just one detail. In American English, there is an idiom stated "squaring the circle". It has to do with solving a seemingly very difficult or impossible problem. In this story, in passing, without flourish, Mr. Updike comments about the Maples that "They circled the square" while on a walking tour. By now I am convinced that Mr. Updike is far too clever an author not to have intentionally inserted this subtle play on words.
Thank You...