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Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
John Updike

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."A&P" and the title story, "Pigeon Feathers", were both adapted into films .

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“What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?”

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