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...Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. The skillful young author of Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit, Run captures the exact curve of a handful of small but marvelous human moments...
...seventeen short stories in Pigeon Feathers are, for the most part, concerned with these people. The farm boy in the title story is typical--stunned by the new found consciousness of his own mortality, he finds relief and a certain reconciliation by methodically killing barn pigeons. So is the young American at the British drawing school of another story whose attempts to court a fellow student are as inorganic and stiff as the objects he paints in his still life...
Updike is the master of small details and everyday events; he builds his stories like stalagmites, the sum of countless small accretions. In earlier volumes, he clearly demonstrated both his painter's eye and his remarkable facility with words. What is new in Pigeon Feathers is a more intense discipline than he has shown before. Gone are the pages of minuitae which continually threatened to bury and bore readers of his second novel, Rabbit, Run His latest short stories are cleaner, tighter, and more skilfully constructed than anything he has ever done before...
Updike, as a writer, is still . He does not seem to have approached the limits of his artistic . Pigeon Feathers both in his immense potential, and, at the time, firmly establishes John as one of the finest young America today...
...Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. Literary exercises by America's most prestigious young writer, author of Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit...