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,...
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Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access...
Self-Consciousness One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick...
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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...
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Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's "Hamlet, " this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards...
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Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest...
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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 blizzard, Caldwell...
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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,...
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A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New EnglandThis is an intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New...
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Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment...
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Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries...
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Newly available in paperback, this 20th anniversary edition of a Caldecott Honor classic combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman. Celebrate the little moments...
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This brilliant new novel from Updike subtly examines the altered experiences of two different generations as the main protagonists share their histories during an interview. "Fascinating,...
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"Letters of E. B. White" touches on a wide variety of subjects, including the "New Yorker" editor who became the author's wife; their dachshund, Fred, with his "look of fake respectability";...
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this...
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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...
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Език: Английски език, Корици: С твърди корици, Брой страници: 32, Издателство: POMEGRANATE COMMUNICATIONS INC, Автор: John Updike, Edward Gorey, ISBN-13: 9780764937101, Дата на издаване:...
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Newly revised by the author for this edition, and printed together in one volume for the first time, Updike's four Rabbit novels chronicle the history of a man and a nation from...
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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...
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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...
New addition to the Penguin Modern Classics range...
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One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a...
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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...
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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 in...
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...
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