Updike, John
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: 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: 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: From the publisher. When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996