Poetry Books by John Updike
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published Date: 1990
Categories: Fiction
Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife who has suddenly gone to work
Publisher: CNIB, 197
Published Date: 1979
Categories: Fiction
In a world where directional signs are unreadable, men and women on the move deal with such problems as marriage, divorce, prostitution, leprosy, extinct mammals, guilt, and getting in and out of Ethiopia
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Published Date: 1985-12-01
Categories: Fiction
In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive, longing, or reproachful. None of these characters is innocent, and all are looking vainly for the road back to an imagined Paradise. Pain and comedy closely coexist in this mainly domestic world of the 1970s, where life is indistinguishable from a television commercial (but what is it advertising?) and every morning s paper brings news of lost Atlantises."
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Fiction
The Reverend Tom Marshfield reviews the confused relationships in his life while confined to a desert rest resort on orders from the bishop
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published Date: 1991
Categories: Fiction
Four novels trace the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published Date: 2001
Categories: Fiction
Twelve short stories revisit the locales of the author's previous works of fiction and focus on a theme of love, in an anthology that is complemented by a novella-length sequel to his Harry Angstrom series, "Rabbit Remembered."
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 2006-02-23
Categories: Fiction
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 embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal price.
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published Date: 1963
Categories: Poetry
Both serious and light poems are brought together in this collection of works by the New England writer
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Published Date: 2006
Categories: Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)
John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school. Now twenty-six, his life seems full of traps, the biggest being his pregnant wife and two-year-old son. He sets out to escape, but it's not clear if Rabbit is really following his heart or only chasing his tail. Powerfully written, Rabbit, Run gave American literature one of its most enduring characters.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Date: 2000
Categories: Fiction
With a new 1999 story added to the paperback volume, this collection of the best stories of the century includes some of the greatest names in literature as well as a few spectacular one-hit wonders. Reprint.
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Fiction
Ben Turnbull, a retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020, in a country decimated by a U.S.-China war, chronicles his life in his journals over the course of a year, finding his personal history merging into alternative identities throughout history and the future. 75,000 first printing. BOMC Main. Tour.
Publisher: Knopf
Published Date: 2004
Categories: Fiction
From his childhood in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1930s to his retirement years in Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts, Owen Mackenzie finds his life irrevocably altered by the communal humanity of the small towns in which he lives.
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published Date: 2005
Categories: Art
Eighteen essays of art criticism cover early American portraiture and landscape painting, late-nineteenth-century masters Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and the work of such artists as James McNeill Whistler and Alfred Stieglitz.
Publisher: Knopf
Published Date: 2012
Categories: Art
A posthumous anthology of the author's art writings includes his 2008 lecture "The Clarity of Things" as well as fourteen essays on Western art and the characterization of American art.
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published Date: 1998
Categories: Golf
As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle to the camaraderie of good golf and its own attendant perils.
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Published Date: 1982
Categories: Fiction
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
Publisher: Fawcett
Published Date: 1988
Categories: Fiction
S. is Sarah Worth -- doctor's wife, North Shore matron, loving mother, and now (suddenly!) ardent follower of a Hindu religious leader known as the Arhat. As this brilliant and very funny novel opens, Sarah is fleeing the confinement of her suburban life to become a sannyasin (pilgrim) at her guru's Arizona ashram. In the letters and audiocassettes that Sarah sends to her husband, daughter, mother, brother, best friend -- to her psychiatrist and her hairdresser and her dentist -- master novelist John Updike gives us a witty comedy of manners, a biting satire of life on a religious commune, and the story -- deep and true -- of an American woman in search of herself. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Published Date: 2013-09-12
Categories: Fiction
Two volumes collect short stories written by the author over the course of his career.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published Date: 2007
Categories: Literary Collections
Documents John Updike's visit to Cincinnati in 2001 as an honored guest of the university in a portrayal of one of America's literary giants as an adept and talented public performer and includes a collection of session transcripts, photographs, anecdotal observations, and more.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993
Publisher: ISD LLC
Published Date: 2018-10-25
Categories: Religion
Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of modern times. Myth, as Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike shows, unlocks his fictional universe and repeatedly breaks open the powerful themes in his literary parables of the gospel. This book also includes a personal tribute to John Updike by his son David, essays by pioneer Updike scholars Alice and Kenneth Hamilton, and an anecdotal chapter in which readers share Updike discoveries and recommendations. All in all, weight is added to the complaint that the master of myth and gospel was shortchanged by the Nobel committee.
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Published Date: 1985
Categories: Literary Criticism
Compares the literary styles of Roth and Updike and examines their treatment of family relationships, ethnic backgrounds, moral responsibilities, and other themes
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Published Date: 2001
Categories: Claudius, King of Denmark (Fictitious character)
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince.
