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John Updike

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of "The New Yorker." His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy...See more

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The Widows of Eastwick

Dissapointed

by Roxanne46, Dec 27, 2012

After the hilarious, rolicking story of the Witches of Eastwick, I was expecting something, at least...more of a travelog...
And there was no answer to what happened to the 3 boys the witches had ... read more
The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital

A nice historical piece on hospital interns

by tomad51, Nov 3, 2011

This is a classic work on interns and their challenges and foibles alone and with patients and each other. It gives a human face to hospital medical preparation of MD's. read more
The Witches of Eastwick

Why sin is fun at first

by Thomas B, Sep 3, 2010

Three women, dissatisfied with their lives and longing for something they only half imagined, conjured up a charming version of Asmodius who provides them with sexual excitement and satisfaction as ... read more

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