John Apdike left Our guide for one -story America John Apdike seemed to us as eternal as America. Soviet people met him at the end of the “thaw”, in 1965, in the second issue of Foreigner. According to it, we learned the American reality and Americans, who, upon closer examination, were neither horns nor hooves. 44 years have passed. For 44 years we read by Apdike about a simple “bourgeois” America, without “show -off”.