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More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
Category: Non-Fiction
More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections. From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary art, issues and people, told from the inimitable perspective of Pulitzer prizewinner John Updike. Wide ra ...Show more
Of The Farm by John Updike
Category: Fiction
Joey Robinson visits the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy, the delicate balance of love and sex ...Show more
Olinger Stories by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The first one-volume hardcover edition of the eleven autobiographical stories that were closest to Updike's heart. With full-cloth binding and a silk ribbon marker. EVERYMAN'S POCKET CLASSICS. In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Storie ...Show more
Poorhouse Fair - B Fmt by John Updike
Category: Classics
At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blame Conner, the new prefect of the home. Together, ...Show more
Rabbit Angstrom - The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Rabbit Quartet
Newly revised for this edition, these four Rabbit novels chronicle the history of a man and a nation from the 1950s to the 1980s. Harry Rabbit Angstrom, athlete, is Mr Middle America and this is his story.
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The first book in his award-winning "Rabbit" series, John Updike's "Rabbit, Run" contains an afterword by the author in "Penguin Modern Classics". It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuc ...Show more
Selected Poems by John Updike (Editor); Christopher Carduff (Editor); Brad Leithauser (Introduction by)
Category: Gift
Now in paperback: five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems--written between 1953 and 2008--with the cumulative force of an autobiography in verse, by this master of American letters. Though John Updike is widely known as one of America's greatest writers of prose, both his first book and his la ...Show more
Terrorist by John Updike
Category: Fiction
The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. ...Show more
The Maples Stories (Everyman) by John Updike
Category: Fiction
In 1956 John Updike wrote a short story about newly-weds Joan and Richard Maple. Over the next two decades he returned to this couple again and again, tracking their years together as they raise children and deal with the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Gathered here for the first time in har ...Show more
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
Category: Fiction
More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows. The cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China a ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more