Wife-Wooing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

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.

In this seventh story, "Your Lover Just Called," Richard Maple suspects his wife of having affair after receiving a mysterious telephone call.

This second story from the collection finds the Maples seven years - and three children - into their marriage. Despite the effects of time, Richard is still very much in love with, and sexually attracted to, his wife. But the complexities of Joan still elude him.

©1979 John Updike (P)2014 Blackstone Audio