John Updike
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
John Updike's sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading "General Considerations," books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less autobiographical pieces--reminiscences, friendly forewords,...
24) Couples: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late 20th century. A classic, it is one of those books that will be read--and remembered--for a long time to come.
25) Terrorist
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ahmad, the son of an Irish-American mother and long-gone Egyptian father, is contemptuous of the self-indulgent society surrounding him, and devoted to the teachings of Islam, becomes drawn into an insidious terrorist plot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The stunning novella that concludes John Updike’s acclaimed Rabbit series is now available on audio.
Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, RABBIT REMEMBERED returns listeners to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing...
Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, RABBIT REMEMBERED returns listeners to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Rabbit series: twenty-two stories that explore life beyond middle age.
To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updike’s title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy...
To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updike’s title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy...
30) Bech: a book
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Updike's most irresistible hero since Rabbit Angstrom is an author famous for his writer's block, a Jew adrift in a world of gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he view life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make readers laugh with delight and wince in recognition.
40) Lots of Laughs!
Author
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
Our most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone.
Nicholson Baker's Subsoil
read by Thomas Gibson
A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes.
John Updike's Farrell's Caddie
read by Charles Keating
An American golfer gets more than golfing tips from his Scottish caddie.
David Schickler's Jamaica
read by Isaiah Sheffer
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