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John Updike
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…
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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…
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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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.
Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1997.
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Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
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…
Updike’s new collection delights with a dozen stories in which love exerts its spell. He also surprises readers with a brilliant sequel to his quartet of novels about Harry Rabbit…
The distinguished author offers six related personal essays that detail the events of his childhood, his problems with a stammer and psoriasis, his thoughts on the Vietnam War, his family…
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…
A collection of stories from the author’s final years.
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…
Four novels trace the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties.
In an interview, Updike once said, If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories. They follow the life of one character from…
A history of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, told by 12 of its members. The book documents the organization and offers insight into the workings of the American…
The third volume in Library of America’s five-volume selected edition of the novels of John Updike includes three books: The Coup, one of Updike’s most outlandish satires, set in a…
Dilvo I Ristoff
John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History is a new historicist reading of Updike’s last Rabbit novel. It follows the day-to-day chronology of events, in the novel and in the…
Jack De Bellis
Twenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the Rabbit Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays.
Christopher Wiseman
Collects the poems that move around Europe, Britain, Canada and the United States, and range from the comic to the satirical to the reflective to the elegiac.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for John Updike’s Oliver’s Evolution, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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A Study Guide for John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Sirinya Pakditawan
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Hamburg, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Perhaps the most revered…
Laurence W. Mazzeno (Royalty Account)
A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.
A Study Guide for John Updike’s Toward the End of Time, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Of the 102 stories gathered here, eighty first appeared in the New Yorker. Most were revised by the author for his collections. All were written from 1953 to 1975, when…
Edward Goreys off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updikes wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. 1. Santa: The Man. Loose-fitting nylon beard…
Herman Melville
Gathers all of Melville’s short stories and novellas, including Billy Budd, Sailor, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Benito Cereno .
Marshall Boswell
This work treats the Rabbit tetralogy as a single, unified metanovel in order to demonstrate that the four discrete sections of the tetralogy provide a coherent articulation of Updike’s existential…
D.Quentin Miller
This text examines how Updike’s views grew out of the defining element of American society in his time - the Cold War. While underscoring how essential history is to the…
Elvira Bugar
John Updike’s Brazil is a fascinating piece of work to read. It is so captivating that you simply cannot put it down. It seems to be a fabulous twentieth- century…
This work brings together 12 essays by prominent Updike scholars to illuminate the achievement of the four Rabbit novels and demonstrate the importance of the Rabbit novels to Updike’s canon…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Updike, two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction in 1982 and 1991. Titles in this…
Brian Keener
The comedy in John Updike’s most important works - The Centaur; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; and Rabbit Remembered - defines a comic world and…
Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories reveal Updike the high school prankster, the golfer, the…
John Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter for contemporary America
The latest volume in Library of America’s John Updike…
Library of America’s definitive Updike collection continues with three masterful novels on the joys and discontents of the sexual revolution.
A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer…
Presents a collection of essays, poems and short stories. This book includes a collection of the author’s best gossip.
Fernanda Eberstadt
From the author of The Furies comes a beautifully reported story of Gypsies, the spellbinding, little-known France they have called home for centuries, and of her remarkable journey among them.
"Two late masterpieces by John Updike that take on the American Century and Shakespeare's Hamlet, and a bittersweet coda to the Rabbit series: In the Beauty of the Lilies, Gertrude…
Collected in one volume for the first time–and featuring a final, series-capping story, His Oeuvre –John Updike’s Bech stories have been a fixture of the American literary imagination since they…
Memories in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round… . This unbridled appreciation of golf’s mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even those who…
Largely ignored in his own time, Melville has emerged today as one of the leading American novelist of the 19th century. This volume stands with the Everyman collection of complete…
Daniel Fuchs
In the spring of 1937, Brooklyn’s Daniel Fuchs, twenty-seven years old and already the author of three remarkable novels (now collected as The Brooklyn Novels
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Karl Shapiro
In this new selection, master literary craftsman John Updike provides a long-overdue reassessment of Karl Shapiro, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has become one of the defining figures of the…
