Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

First edition (publ. Alfred A. Knopf)

Pigeon Feathers is an early collection of short stories by John Updike, published in 1962. It includes the stories Wife-Wooing and A&P, which have both been anthologized.

List of stories

• "Walter Briggs"
• "The Persistence of Desire"
• "Still Life"
• "Flight"
• "Should Wizard Hit Mommy?"
• "A Sense of Shelter"
• "Dear Alexandros"
• "Wife-Wooing"
• "Pigeon Feathers"
• "Home"
• "Archangel"
• "You’ll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You"
• "The Astronomer"
• "A&P"
• "The Doctor’s Wife"
• "Lifeguard"
• "The Crow in the Woods"
• "The Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother’s Thimble, and Fanning Island"
• "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car"

Film

The short story "Pigeon Feathers" was adapted into a film and presented in 1987 on the Public Broadcasting "American Playhouse" series. It was directed by Sharron Miller and starred Christopher Collet, Caroline McWilliams, Jeffrey DeMunn, Lenka Peterson, and Boyd Gaines.

References

1. http://www.wwnorton.com/COLLEGE/titles/english/nasf7/contents.htm]]