Tarbox

For most readers, then -- and for me -- the most significant story in "Tarbox Tales" is probably "A & P."

Updike, John 2010

It's interesting partly as a period piece, but it also shows (along with a few of the stories in "Tarbox Tales") John Updike discovering what, in my opinion, is still his most interesting and most enduring subject.

Updike, John 2010

While the premise of "Queen's Mask" by Barbara E. Tarbox is formulaic - widow queen defends her crown and her son from the evil, scheming, power-hungry Lord - there are a few elements that rescue the story and make it nonetheless entertaining.

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'Tarbox' -- George W., -- namesake of the man who never told a lie, -- 'do you want to succeed in life?

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

"Tarbox," persisted the engineer, driving away his own smile, "you know what you are; you are a born contractor!

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

There are two Maple stories in this section, "The Taste of Metal" and "Your Lover Just Called," although it isn't clear to me why these are included as Tarbox Tales while the others are not.

Updike, John 2010

Easily Updike's most anthologized story, its first-person narrative tells the deceptively simple story of the protagonist's coming of age as he, a checkout boy in the grocery store named in the title, watches the reaction of the Tarbox residents ( "the sheep") to the appearance of a sexually uninhibited, scantily clad young lady in the store one day.

Updike, John 2010

Called "Tarbox Tales," it gathers together fourteen stories set in the fictional town of Tarbox, Massachusetts (although in several of the stories the town's name is never mentioned.)

Updike, John 2010

The Columbia show restores Mr. Hine's work to its original context in magazines, posters and slide shows, along with that of Mr. Riis and other early documentary photographers such as Jessie Tarbox Beals and Hiram Myers.

Witness to Bonds of War William Meyers 2011

Those wishing to experience Updike's portrayal of Tarbox, the otherwise rather nondescript New England town going through its own kind of turmoil during the 1960s, will thus probably have to turn to Couples.

Updike, John 2010