The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Home, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio.
This classic novel, first published in 1978, tells the story of an intern at a frantically busy urban hospital, and contains an introduction by John Updike.
Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards of lost golf balls - rough, woods, bunkers and wetlands - as well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer, he photographs his way to the heart of the matter with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process he ...
One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation, Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman. What follows is the saga of the Wilmot family, one wandering tapestry thread within the ...
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is Edith Wharton's insider's look at New York society at a time when an address above 12th Street was considered the wild frontier. May Welland, demure and pretty, is born and bred to marry Newland Archer, a thoughtful barrister. He in turn loves the brazen, unconventional, and attractive Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left ...
John Updike's highly acclaimed saga of desire and regret, first published in 1959, introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a typical Middle American--small-town Protestant, former basketball star, married man intent on making a name for himself in the community--whose life begins to unravel when he falls in love and deserts his wife. Caught between ...
In this delightfully ominous sequel to "The Witches of Eastwick," Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are now widowed and have returned to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they must cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds.
Born of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father long since disappeared, 18-year-old Ahmad craves spiritual nurture and is drawn into an insidious plot.
Twenty-two of Updike's best short stories, many of them about the issue of trust--trust that is betrayed as well as trust that is, painfully, fulfilled.
Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly").
Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors, but his life is not without problems, including the return of his recalcitrant son Nelson, the return of an old ...
A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book. The opening sequence, "Endpoint,"" "is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness ...
The story of the black dictator Ellellou who rules the imaginary African country of Kush (formerly known as the French colony Noire). Educated in America, Ellellou reminisces about his earlier, more carefree life in Wisconsin with considerable longing now that a drought has descended upon Kush and he finds his own power in jeopardy. For all its ...
Updike's fourth "Rabbit" novel presents the human condition as personified by Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The fat, aging, ill Rabbit must also cope with his son's drug addiction, his wife's troubles, a former girlfriend who turns up suffering from lupus, and the world in general, with which Rabbit has always had a love-hate relationship. In this last ...
In RABBIT REDUX (1971), John Updike's poignant sequel to RABBIT, RUN, he explores the tumultuous transformations of the late '60s as they affect the traditional American values on which Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom--like so many other Americans--believes his life is based. Rabbit trusts the government, supports the Vietnam War, finds blacks ("Negroes") ...
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 ...
They are sociable, articulate and unhappy; they enjoy sailing, basketball and skiing; they play word games in the evenings and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, they and their rituals are observed by the baleful eye of their self-appointed ringmaster, Freddy Thorne.
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations.
The 47th book by John Updike is a collection of short pieces on a classic game. A golfer for almost 40 years, Updike has written frequently about his "impassioned but imperfect devotion" to the game. Now he brings together his writings culled from a variety of sources--The New Yorker, Golf Digest, his own fiction--that knowingly cover everything ...
Updike's first novel describes the annual fair staged by the elderly inhabitants of a New Jersey poorhouse. Although everything proceeds along traditional and unremarkable lines for most of the afternoon, a protest suddenly breaks out and threatens to overwhelm the young director of the home.
Updikes 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.
Roger Lambert, a respected divinity school professor, encounters a young computer enthusiast named Dale Kohler who is attempting to prove the existence of God by means of a computer program. In an odd reversal, Roger tries to convince Dale that his project is fruitless. Updike's 12th novel is primarily about questions of faith, but it also tells ...
The 47th book by John Updike is a collection of short pieces on a classic game. A golfer for almost 40 years, Updike has written frequently about his "impassioned but imperfect devotion" to the game. Now he brings together his writings culled from a variety of sources--The New Yorker, Golf Digest, his own fiction--that knowingly cover everything ...
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