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John Updike
Four novels trace the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties.
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Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these 18 classic stories from across Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all…
Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie ply their individual witcheries in contemporary Eastwick, Rhode Island, and are themselves bewitched by a dark, wealthy, decadent stranger.
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Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number…
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Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided…
Roger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings…
Taking its title from the Battle Hymn of the Republic , IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES traces one family’s profound journey through four generations–and across the spiritual landscape of…
Deals with one of America’s issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions.
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On a spring day in Vermont, 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. As the day wears on, Kathryn…
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…
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light , has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what…
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with…
Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population…
The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven…
An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and…
When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike’s fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece…
Updike’s seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in…
Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern…
In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren’t as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused…
It’s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He’s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That’s ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth…
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 - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic…
Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
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