Updike, John

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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Updike, 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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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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Updike, John.

Summary: Twenty-two stories on life in the sunset lane, illustrating the saying that every age has its charm, including old age. By the author of Brazil.

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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994

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Updike, John.

Summary: 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 adultery and treachery to ascend the throne.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Crest 1977

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Updike, John.

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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Updike, John.

Summary: Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne. Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2008

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Updike, John

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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Updike, John.

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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Updike, John.

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

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Updike, John.

Summary: Contains eighteen stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11 and finds reflection in these glittering pieces of observation, remembrance, and imagination.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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Updike, John.

Summary: "Ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990

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Updike, John.

Summary: Harry Angstrom, now middle-aged and the chief sales representative of a Toyota dealership, attempts to cope with such problems as inflation, governmental ineffectiveness, the return of his prodigal son, and a chance encounter with an old girlfriend.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1981

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Updike, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996

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Updike, John.

Summary: New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988

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Updike, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1963

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Updike, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978

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Updike, John.

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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Updike, John.

Contents: What MoMA done tole me -- A city frieze -- An outdoor Vermeer -- The apple's fresh weight -- A case of overestimation -- The child within -- American children -- Something missing -- Field's luminous folk -- A case of solicitude -- Is art worth it -- A mischievous Monet -- Reluctant butterfly -- Some rectangles of blue -- Violence at the windows -- Moving along -- A case of melancholia -- The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA 2001

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Updike, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2012

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Updike, John.

Summary: Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

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Updike, John.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010

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