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John Updike
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…
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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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Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they…
A tour de force … Readable, clever. Chicago Tribune Book WorldThe adventures of the Reverend Tom Marshfield – literate, charming, sexual – whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his…
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Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
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Graham Greene
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being…
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Essays include a discussion of the social and historical context of Updike’s work and a consideration of Updike’s recurrent Jewish-American character, the blocked writer, Henry Bech.
Jack De Bellis
Through several hundred alphabetically-arranged entries, this volume provides a guide to the life and work of John Updike. It summarizes Updike’s books, describes the major characters, explains allusions, identifies major…
Frederic Svoboda
The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced…
The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure. In Understanding John…
This collection includes 32 interviews given by John Updike to critics, scholars, talk-show hosts, reporters (national, international and local), a religious journal, a school student, and many more. They all…
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Schiff
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
A collection of poems.
John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning…
Bob Batchelor
This book examines the essence of Updike’s writing, propelling our understanding of his award-winning fiction, prose, and poetry.Widely considered America’s Man of Letters, John Updike is a prolific novelist and…
John Updike’s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike’s developing personality and precocious creativity. Relying upon interviews with classmates and friends, and offering extensive connections to his…
A collection of essays that perceive Updike’s America through the eyes of Western and Eastern European readers and scholars, contributing to Updike scholarship while demonstrating his resonance across the Atlantic.
John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and novels in his home…
John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today, with an acclaimed body of work spanning half a century. With a chronology and bibliography of…
John McTavish
An exploration of the work of the American novelist John Updike, revealing the powerful mythic and sacred themes that underlie his fictional world.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for John Updike’s The Slump, 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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Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike’s works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes…
John Updike’s provocative and absorbing 20th novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much discussion and some rain.
The fiftieth anniversary edition of John Updike’s collection of semi-autobiographical stories about a small Pennsylania town, first published in paperback in 1964 and now in hardcover for the first time…
Original publication and copyright date: 1981.
A haunting novel that completes Updike’s extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry Rabbit Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart…
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.
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…
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…
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…
John Updike’s first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer’s youth. It opens…
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, Hugging the Shore is an enormously intelligent, witty collection of essays by John Updike. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist sheds keen…
To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs-book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a few paragraphs on baseball or beauty or…
In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose, mostly picked-up pieces of his writing for The New Yorker during the 1960s and early ‘70s, we find the author coming into…
In a play meant to be read, James Buchanan, 15th President of the U.S., relives his political and private past. A new foreword and a wide-ranging afterword put the dramatic…
John Updike, moonlighting as art critic, now gathers together in this richly illustrated book 18 of his remarkable pieces, all dealing with American art.
Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with…
Updike’s 21st novel is a bildungsroman describing the education, romantic and otherwise, of Owen Makenzie. Unabridged.
Chapter I has been previously published as a booklet by the Albondocani Press (New York; 1973). Chapter II appeared, in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker. –Title page verso.
Updike’s first collection in seven years explores life beyond middle age. As usual in Updike’s fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave, and houses with their decor have personalities…
Taking its title from the Battle Hymn of the Republic , this book traces one family’s profound journey through four generations–and across the spiritual landscape of 20th century America. It…
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…
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