Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories

Pigeon Feathers

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Author	John Updike
Cover artist	S. Neil Fujita
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	1962

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.

List of stories

• "Walter Briggs"
• "The Persistence of Desire"
• "Still Life"
• "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"
• "Blocked dirt, creeperslaying, My sword's Hilt, and Nether Island"
• "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car"

Film

The short story "Pigeon Feathers" was adapted into a film and 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.