John Updike: Books, Biography, Famous Works, Influences, Rabbit, Couples - Interview (2005)
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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)
- UPC: 046442843676
- ASIN: 0395843677
- ISBN: 0395843677
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]
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Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
- ASIN: B07H71LX88
- Manufacturer: Random House
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A feminist jeremiad nested inside a brilliant comic novel—a book that makes you laugh so hard you don’t notice till later that your eyebrows have been singed off.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “Funny, dirty, sly, irresistible.”—New York A finely observed, timely e... [Read More]
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The Early Stories: 1953-1975
- ASIN: 0345463366
- ISBN: 0345463366
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation compos... [Read More]
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The House of God
- ASIN: B00400NHRO
- Manufacturer: Berkley
By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. “The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling…brutally honest.”—The Ne... [Read More]
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John Updike: The Collected Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set
- ASIN: 1598532502
- ISBN: 1598532502
- Brand: Brand: Library of America
- Manufacturer: Library of America
From his first collection, The Same Door, released in 1959, to his last, My Father’s Tears, published fifty years later, John Updike was America’s reigning master of the short story, “our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described him. His evocations of small-town Pennsylvania life, and of his own religious, artistic, and sexual awakening,... [Read More]
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Roger's Version: A Novel
- ASIN: 0449912183
- ISBN: 0449912183
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Da... [Read More]
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Rabbit, Run
- ASIN: 0449911659
- ISBN: 0449911659
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and... [Read More]
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The Corrections: A Novel (Recent Picador Highlights)
- ASIN: B0022VV0RC
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel
- ASIN: B006L7ROUU
- Manufacturer: Random House
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My Father's Tears: And Other Stories
- ASIN: 0345513800
- ISBN: 0345513800
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
“Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In My Father’s Tears, the author revisits his signature characters, places, and themes—Americans ... [Read More]
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Sacred Hunger
- ASIN: B005X0JSIW
- Manufacturer: Anchor
Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his las... [Read More]
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Rabbit Redux
- ASIN: 0449911934
- ISBN: 0449911934
- Brand: Random House Trade
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rab... [Read More]
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Henry and Cato: A Novel
- ASIN: B00AG8GV1S
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
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The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and t... [Read More]
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Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time: The Book Lover's Guide to Literary Trivia
- ASIN: 0692851488
- ISBN: 0692851488
- Manufacturer: DaveAstorWrites.com
If you love classic literature and reading novels from famous fiction authors then you are going to love this book! In Fascinating Facts, literary trivia expert and author Dave Astor provides 100-plus short chapters which contain anecdotes, oddities, coincidences, and of course great trivia about the greatest authors who have ever put pen to paper... [Read More]
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100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)
- ASIN: B00QPI449E
- Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-... [Read More]
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Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel
- ASIN: B002MUAFYC
- Manufacturer: Random House
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The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143107550
- ISBN: 0143107550
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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 moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevsky and forward to Cormac McCarthy. Named one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century by Time... [Read More]
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Updike
- UPC: 884568315222
- ASIN: 0061896454
- ISBN: 0061896454
- Manufacturer: Harper
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The Complete Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library)
- ASIN: B009JU6VGY
- Manufacturer: Schocken
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