John Updike
Rich In Russia
$5.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk
In these two short stories, Updike's brilliant observational acuity is matched by a light, comic touch. The writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend... Buy or find out more →
Woman Who Got Away: Penguin Great Loves
$0.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In the small town of Pierce Junction adultery is the popular pastime and pillow talk the common currency. Martin knows the women he hasn't yet seduced hold his attention for the longest, and Winifred, married to his own ... Buy or find out more →
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy
$48.95 – Hardcover book / Everymans Library
Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy - Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest
Newly revised for this edition, these four Rabbit novels chronicle the history of a man and a nation from the 1950s to the 1980s. H... Buy or find out more →
My Fathers Tears And Other Stories
$49.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
John 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 stories of New England suburbia... Buy or find out more →
My Father's Tears And Other Stories
$32.95$12.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
John 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 stories of New England suburbia a... Buy or find out more →
Maples Stories
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Everymans Library
Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In... Buy or find out more →
The Witches Of Eastwick
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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. Into the void of Eastwick ... Buy or find out more →
Rabbit, Run
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school. Now twenty-six, his life seems full of traps, the biggest being his p... Buy or find out more →
Rabbit, Run
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 wife, a
house full of overflowing as... Buy or find out more →
Rabbit Is Rich
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales... Buy or find out more →
Rabbit Redux
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be – at least, not f... Buy or find out more →
Rabbit At Rest
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
It's 1989, and Harry `Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His... Buy or find out more →
Month Of Sundays
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 disgrace. Buy or find out more →
Memories Of The Ford Administration
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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 of personal history as well: his unfinish... Buy or find out more →
Couples
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 adultery all... Buy or find out more →
Witches Of Eastwick
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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. Into the void of Eastwick ... Buy or find out more →
Toward The End Of Time
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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 and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben... Buy or find out more →
S A Novel
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth – S. – has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Ari... Buy or find out more →
Brazil
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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 a ring. Their flight into ... Buy or find out more →
Complete Henry Bech
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Bech: A Book; Bech is Back; Bech in Czech are here collected in one volume. A perfect forum for Updike's limber prose, The Complete Henry Bech is an arch portrait of the literary life in America from an incomparable Amer... Buy or find out more →
Poorhouse Fair
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Published just four years after John Updike graduated from Harvard, The Poorhouse Fair is a brilliant allegory about charity. The setting is a poorhouse – repository of the old, the infirm, and the impoverished – on the ... Buy or find out more →
Licks Of Love Short Stories
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
A dozen new short stories form the prelude to 'Rabbit Remembered', a glorious novella-length sequel to John Updike's Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom novels. Set in the final months of 1999, it begins with an unexpected revelatio... Buy or find out more →
Coup
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
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 a grounding in the subtle skills of re... Buy or find out more →
Marry Me
$12.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who s been sleeping with Richard - As a hot, feverish summer ... Buy or find out more →
Rogers Version
$0.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affa... Buy or find out more →
In The Beauty Of The Lilies
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
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 twentieth-century America. It is on... Buy or find out more →
Terrorist
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one... Buy or find out more →
Villages
$0.00 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. Sexually repressed as a young man, Owen later marries the elegant and remote Phyllis, his college girlfriend. But this soon leads to... Buy or find out more →
Seek My Face
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of Americ... Buy or find out more →