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Chapters (20)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Epigraph
  5. i. Dream On, Dear Owen
  6. ii. Village Sex—I
  7. iii. The Husband
  8. iv. Village Sex—II
  9. v. How Phyllis Was Won
  10. vi. Village Sex—III
  11. vii. On the Way to Middle Falls
  12. viii. Village Sex—IV
  13. ix. Convalescence
  14. x. Village Sex—V
  15. xi. Developments in Hardware
  16. xii. Village Sex—VI
  17. xiii. You Don’t Want to Know
  18. xiv. Village Wisdom
  19. Also by John Updike
  20. About the Author

Considering his many qualms and the cloistered household his four guardians struggled to maintain around him, the wonder is that he has managed in life as well as he has. His only-child capacity for self-amusement, his patience in solving problems that he set for himself, or that he and Buddy Rourke devised together, stood him in good stead in the burgeoning computer industry; but even on the social level he is not quite inept. His manner is shy but seductive. The villages he has lived in have been sites of instruction.