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Lifeguard audiobook
- By: John Updike
- Narrator: John Updike
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 21 minutes
- Publisher: Caedmon
- Publish date: August 11, 2009
- Language: English
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Lifeguard Audiobook Summary
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.
In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, “I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me — to give the mundane its beautiful due.”
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Lifeguard Audiobook Narrator
John Updike is the narrator of Lifeguard audiobook that was written by John Updike
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of fifty-odd previous books, including twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His fiction has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal.
About the Author(s) of Lifeguard
John Updike is the author of Lifeguard
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Lifeguard Full Details
| Narrator | John Updike |
| Length | 21 minutes |
| Author | John Updike |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Caedmon |
| Release date | August 11, 2009 |
| ISBN | 9780061962431 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Lifeguard is Caedmon. The imprint is Caedmon. It is supplied by Caedmon. The ISBN-13 is 9780061962431.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Dave
September 28, 2020
Here's the story from The New Yorket, published many decades ago, by John Updike:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19....I read it decades ago and listened to it three times over the weekend and liked it more each time. Readby the author, here!https://riezone.overdrive.com/media/1...It's about a nineteen-year-old divinity student who spends most of his time reading the Bible and theology throughout the year but who watches a lof (mainly female) flesh on beaches all summer as lifeguard. It's not really so much a story as a kind of parody of a sermon he shares with us about the thing he is mostly obsessed about: girls, which we learn he has no real experience with (since he is in divinity school, separating himself from the world of the flesh, of course!). He wants to "save" the young girls he lusts after.“Someday my alertness will bear fruit; from near the horizon there will arise, delicious, translucent, like a green bell above the water, the call for help, the call, a call, it saddens me to confess, that I have yet to hear.”The kid is kind of vain and naive but the story is sort of sweet, too as we realize very few of them will ever call him to be "saved" by him:“So: be joyful. Be Joyful is my commandment. It is the message I read in your jiggle. Stretch your skins like pegged hides curing in the miracle of the sun’s moment. Exult in your legs’ scissoring, your waist’s swivel. Romp; eat the froth; be children. I am here above you; I have given my youth that you may do this. I wait.”
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