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American fiction 20th century Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character) Fiction Art Psychology Exiles Fiction Families Pennsylvania Fiction Farm life Pennsylvania Fiction Middle class men Fiction Short stories Short stories, American United States Social life and customs 20th century FictionUpdike, John
Summary: The three essential John Updike novels collected here--the scandalous Couples, the second Rabbit book, Rabbit Redux, and the uproarious A month of Sundays--form an indelible triptych of the social upheaval that roiled America from the Kennedy to the Nixon years. Written with the grace, verve and style of one of American literature's most beguiling entertainers, these books reveal Updike's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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Summary: The third volume in our 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 fictional African nation; Rabbit Is Rich, the third, and many say best, novel starring his most famous protagonist; and the wildly popular The Witches of Eastwick, which was memorably adapted in the film starring Cher, Michelle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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Summary: Twenty-six-year-old John Updike was already well known as a contributor of stories and poems to The New Yorker when, in January 1959, he published The Poorhouse Fair, the first of four novels that mine his early life in small-town Pennsylvania. All four are collected here in this inaugural volume of the Library of America edition of Updike’s novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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Summary: In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910, when Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in Paterson, NJ, experiences a devastating loss of faith. This moment of crisis sets in motion an eighty-year, multigenerational saga whose subject is nothing less than the American Century and modernity itself, seen through the fluctuating fortunes of a single representative family. In Gertrude and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDUpdike, John.
Contents: Ace in the hole -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A game of Botticelli -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth -- Dentistry and doubt -- The kid's whistling -- Toward evening -- Snowing in Greenwich Village -- Who made yellow roses yellow? -- His finest hour -- Sunday teasing -- The lucid eye in silver town -- A trillion feet of gas -- Incest -- A gift from the city -- Intercession -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDMaxwell, William
Contents: Bright center of heaven -- They came like swallows -- Stories 1938-1945: Homecoming ; Actual thing ; Young Francis Whitehead ; Haller's second home ; Patterns of love -- Folded leaf -- Time will darken it -- Stories 1952-1956: Trojan women ; Pilgrimage ; What every boy should know ; French scarecrow -- Writer as illusionist -- Appendix: Introduction to They came like swallows ; Preface to Time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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Summary: In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" ("The New York Times Book Review"). " Always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Contents: Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- The fairy godfathers -- The egg race -- The parade -- The faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- The city -- Learn a trade -- The ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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Summary: 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 in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011