Pigeon Feathers

Pigeon Feathers

"Pigeon Feathers" is an early collection of short stories by John Updike, published in 1962. It includes the story `Wife-Wooing`, which has been anthologized.

List of stories

* "Walter Briggs"
* "The Persistence of Desire"
* "Still Life"
* "Flight"
* "Should Wizard Hit Mommy?"
* "A Sense of Shelter"
* "Dear Alexandros"
* "Wife-Wooing"
* "Pigeon Feathers"
* "Home"
* "Archangel"
* "You’ll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You"
* "The Astronomer"
* "A&P"
* "The Doctor’s Wife"
* "Lifeguard"
* "The Crow in the Woods"
* "The Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother’s Thimble, and Fanning Island"
* "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car"

Film

Pigeon Feathers is an adaptation of the John Updike short story that was presented in 1987 on the Public Broadcasting "American Playhouse" series. It was directed by Sharron Miller and starred Christopher Collet, Caroline McWilliams, Jeffrey DeMunn, Lenka Peterson, and Boyd Gaines.


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