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The mysterious disappearance of Meg and Charles Murry's father seems unsolvable
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John Updike: John Updike: The Collected Stories [2013] hardback ZAUDI into his storytelling' New YorkFrom his first collection, The Same Door, released in 1959, to his last, My Father's Tears, published fifty years later, John Updike was America's reigning master of the short story, "our second Hawthorne," as Philip Roth described him. His evocations of small town Pennsylvania life, and of his own religious, artistic, and sexual awakening, transfixed readers of The New Yorker and of the early collections Pigeon Feathers (1962) and The Music School