Trust Me

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Trust Me is a collection of short stories by John Updike published in 1987. The stories were orignally published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, Vanity Fair, Yankee, and The Ontario Reveiw.

The collection consits of twenty-two stories, focusing on Updikean themes of love, death, sexuality, and loneliness.

"Trust Me" includes the following stories by John Updike:

"Trust Me"

"Killing"

"Still of Some Use"

"The City"

"The Lovely Troubled Daughters of our Old Crowd"

"Unstuck"

"A Constellation of Events"

"Deaths of Distant Friends"

"Pygmalion"

"More Stately Mansions"

"Learn a Trade"

"The Ideal Village"

"One More Interview"

"The Other"

"Slippage"

"Poker Night"

"Made in Heaven"

"Getting into the Set"

"The Wallet"

"Leaf Season"

"Beautiful Husbands"

"The Other Women"


Updike is well recognized for his short stories, typically dwelling on similar themes to those found in Trust Me. Other story collections of his are The Same Door, Pigeon Feathers, The Music School, Museums and Women, Problems, and Bech is Back.