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John Updike
Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
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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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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.
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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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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…
Frederic Svoboda
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
A collection of poems.
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…
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…
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.
The only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.
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…
Michial Farmer (Customer)
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…
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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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…
Offers a collection of author’s critical essays and reflections. This title presents a discussion on contemporary art, issues and people.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 collection of stories from the author’s final years.
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…
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…
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…
Presents a collection of essays, poems and short stories. This book includes a collection of the author’s best gossip.
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…
Now in paperback, the long-awaited, critically acclaimed return of one of Updike’s most entertaining characters–the inimitable Harry Bech.
