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John Updike
The richest and most sensual novel in years from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Rabbit series. Two young, beautiful lovers, a black child of the Rio slums and a…
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Stories that trace the decline and fall of a marriage, a history made up of the happiness of growing children and shared life, and the sadness of growing estrangement and…
Now in paperback, the long-awaited, critically acclaimed return of one of Updike’s most entertaining characters–the inimitable Harry Bech.
Updike’s most irresistible hero since Rabbit Angstrom is an author famous for his writer’s block, a Jew adrift in a world of gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to…
The renowned Henry Bech is now 50 years old and reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcee from Westchester, and–surprise to all–writes a runaway bestseller.
john Updike, the acclaimed author of The Witches of Eastwick, pens hisfunniest novel yet. S. is Sarah Worth–doctor’s wife, loving mother, and now an ardent follower of a Hindu religion…
Here is trust betrayed–and fulfilled. Here are parents struggling to maintain that fragile claim on their offspring’s childish awe. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them. Here…
The inhabitants of a central New Jersey poorhouse argue about the decline of patriotism, tradition, and religion while participating in the activities of their annual fair.
This novel follows Owen Mackenzie, a computer programmer, from his boyhood in rural Pennsylvania to his final years in a New England geriatric community. Along the way, Mackenzie becomes entangled…
In this delightfully ominous sequel to The Witches of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are now widowed and have returned to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they must…
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…
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Alfred Clayton, the historian who narrates this novel, remembers the period of Gerald Ford’s presidency, a time of loose morals, publicly and privately. During that time Clayton leaves his wife…
One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation…
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Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light , has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers across world. Suffering from temporary impotence and not-so-temporary writer’s…
Using details from the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet , this tale brings to life Gertrude’s girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage…
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…
Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New York advertising executive, brings his new family to visit the farm of his youth, thereby encountering ghosts of the past. Reprint.
A collection of twenty-two stories exploring life beyond middle age and finding it to have its own wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to prescient sexual rumours, from losing mothers to…
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…
Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage and adultery in America. But be…
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a…
In his brilliant novel, Updike tells the story of Gertrude and Claudius, Kingand Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins.
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Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith…
Updike revisits his people, places, and themes–Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity–in vivid portraits of the aged, people for whom the past has become…
A harvest and not a winnowing, The Early Stories preserves almost all of the short fiction John Updike published between 1954 and 1975. Of these 103 stories, 80 first appeared…
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…
When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is…
A collection of poems.
Owen Mackenzie’s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a…
As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sally is big and pampered. She’s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally, but he’s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who’s been sleeping with…
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…
On the 50th anniversary of Ted Williams’ last at-bat comes the definitive new edition of the Updike classic that set the standard for sports writing, prepared by the author just…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1962 –Copyright page.
Erotic joy, criminal mischief, politics and sorcery mingle in the 16th offering from the author of Rabbit Run. In Brazil, the lives of two young lovers spring together and take…
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…
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom–known to all as…
Born of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father long since disappeared, 18-year-old Ahmad craves spiritual nurture and is drawn into an insidious plot.
It’s the marvelous story of three ambitious witches living in a small New England town in the late 1960s, who find themselves quite under the spell of the new man…
