The Women Who Got Away

by John Updike

ISBN: 978-0-141-03293-1

First published 1953-75

106 pages

Illustration by Victoria Sawdon

Cover design by David Pearson

Publisher: penguinclassics.com

4/5 Stars

A collection of short stories by one of America’s most important authors of the 20th Century, John Updike.  Sexually explicit, tasteful, intriguing, realistic, poignant, Updike never stands in judgement of his characters. There are five stories included in this collection;

• “Natural Color” – affairs in New Hampshire
• “New York Girl” – Affairs in New York
• “Licks of Love (…)” – An affair set in the Cold War
• “The Women Who Got Away” – Seventies ‘party-time’
• “Transaction” – The oldest transaction in the world

Worth reading.