{"product_id":"problems-and-other-stories-9780449243602","title":"Problems and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories  John Updike tackles such problems as separation  divorce  and remarriage  parents and children  guns and prostitution  leprosy  swooning  suffocation  and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep  seductive  longing  or reproachful. None of these characters is innocent  and all are looking vainly for the road back to an imagined Paradise. Pain and comedy closely coexist in this mainly domestic world of the 1970s  where life is indistinguishable from a television commercial (but what is it advertising?) and every mornings paper brings news of lost Atlantises.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792600588341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0449243605","price":66.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780449243602.jpg?v=1784755043","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/problems-and-other-stories-9780449243602","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}