Too Far to Go is a collection of short stories by the American author John Updike

John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic....

 published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC

NBC

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 network with Blythe Danner

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, Michael Moriarty

Michael Moriarty

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, Kathryn Walker

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 and Glenn Close

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. The linked stories focus upon the marriage and eventual divorce of Richard and Joan Maple and depict a 1960s New York City and New England milieu through the 1970s typical of much of Updike's fiction. Many of the stories were initially published as occasional stories in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. The story "Your Lover Just Called" was later adapted into a playlet by Updike himself. It is included in his collection More Matter (1999). Most of these stories were also included in Updike's 2003 collection The Early Stories

The Early Stories: 1953–1975

The Early Stories: 1953–1975, published in 2003 by Knopf, is a John Updike book collecting much of his short stories written from the beginning of his writing career, when he was just 21, until 1975...

, except those published after 1975; namely, "Waiting Up", "The Red-Herring Theory", "Divorcing: A Fragment", and "Here Come the Maples". In August 2009, Everyman's Library

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published The Maples Stories, a new edition of Too Far to Go, including the final Maples story "Grandparenting".

The stories included:

• "Snowing in Greenwich Village"
• "Wife-wooing"
• "Giving Blood"
• "Twin Beds in Rome"
• "Marching Through Boston"
• "The Taste of Metal"
• "Your Lover Just Called"
• "Waiting Up"
• "Eros Rampant"
• "Plumbing"
• "The Red-Herring Theory"
• "Sublimating"
• "Nakedness"
• "Separating"
• "Gesturing"
• "Divorcing: A Fragment"
• "Here Come the Maples"