Hear John Updike Read “The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd”

Above, hear John Updike read his short sto­ry “The Love­ly Trou­bled Daugh­ters of Our Old Crowd”, from his col­lec­tion Trust Me. The sto­ry was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in The New York­er in 1981.

Find the sto­ry list­ed in our col­lec­tion, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Down­load Great Books for Free.

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