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  • Couples

    A Novel

    by John Updike ...
    “Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—TimeOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsOne of the signature novels of the American ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Rabbit, Run

    by John Updike ...
    Series Book 1 - Rabbit
    **“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—***Kansas City StarRabbit, Run* is the book thatestablished 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. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Witches of Eastwick

    A Novel

    by John Updike ...
    “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book ReviewToward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • In the Beauty of the Lilies

    A Novel

    by John Updike ...
    In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God’s relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite from “the bleak facts of life, his life, gutted by God’s withdrawal.” His son, Teddy, becomes a mailman who retreats from American exceptionalism, religious and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Selected Letters of John Updike

    by John Updike ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The arc of literary giant John Updike’s life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers—a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days.As James Schiff writes in the introduction to this volume, of the writer who would eventually “express himself in written ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Villages

    A Novel

    by John Updike ...
    A delightful, witty, passionate novel that follows its hero from the Depression era to the early twenty-first century—from a master of American letters and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows Owen Mackenzie from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Americana

    and Other Poems

    by John Updike ...
    John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length.The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long "Song of Myself," daily life, its furniture and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rabbit Redux

    by John Updike ...
    Series Book 2 - Rabbit
    The stunning sequel to Rabbit, Run that resumes the spiritual quest of the anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.“[Updike is] an awesomely accomplished writer. . . . For God’s sake, read the book. It may even—will probably—change your life.”—Anatole Broyard, The New York Times“Amid the upheaval of the Trump years, [Rabbit Redux is] the postwar novel that strikes me as most prophetic.”—Ron ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Memories of the Ford Administration

    A Novel

    by John Updike ...
    When historian Alfred “Alf” Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974–77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf’s highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of John Updike

    by John Updike ...
    The best from Updike’s lifework in poetry: 129 witty and intimate poems that, when read together take on the quality of an autobiography in verse. • By a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.“Updike’s gift for close observation, in these poems as elsewhere, is near to supernatural.” —The New York TimesFive decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems—written ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Museums & Women and Other Stories

    by John Updike ...
    Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras of middle-class life, especially life in a fictional New England enclave ... Read more

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  • Odd Jobs

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD