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My Father's Tears
And Other Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51380-9 (0-345-51380-0)
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And Other Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 25, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51380-9 (0-345-51380-0)
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The Maples Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27176-1 (0-307-27176-5)
Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.
In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27176-1 (0-307-27176-5)
Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.
In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard... Read more >
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27156-3 (0-307-27156-0)
John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since 2000 finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27156-3 (0-307-27156-0)
John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since 2000 finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s... Read more >
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The Widows of Eastwick
A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-50697-9 (0-345-50697-9)
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A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-50697-9 (0-345-50697-9)
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Endpoint and Other Poems
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27286-7 (0-307-27286-9)
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... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27286-7 (0-307-27286-9)
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... Read more >
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The Widows of Eastwick
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26960-7 (0-307-26960-4)
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26960-7 (0-307-26960-4)
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and... Read more >
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Due Considerations
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-49900-4 (0-345-49900-X)
“A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike, one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the... Read more >
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-49900-4 (0-345-49900-X)
“A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike, one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the... Read more >
Due Considerations
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26640-8 (0-307-26640-0)
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... Read more >
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26640-8 (0-307-26640-0)
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... Read more >
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Little Money Street
In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Written by Fernanda Eberstadt
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27942-2 (0-307-27942-1)
In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France—a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms... Read more >
In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France
Written by Fernanda Eberstadt
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27942-2 (0-307-27942-1)
In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France—a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a society made, in part, of lawlessness and defiance of non-Gypsy norms... Read more >
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Terrorist
A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-49391-0 (0-345-49391-5)
John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words... Read more >
A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-49391-0 (0-345-49391-5)
John Updike has written a brilliant novel that ranks among the most provocative of his distinguished career. Terrorist is the story of Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, an alienated American-born teenager who spurns the materialistic, hedonistic life he witnesses in the slumping New Jersey factory town he calls home. Turning to the words... Read more >
Terrorist
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26465-7 (0-307-26465-3)
The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam.
The son... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 6, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26465-7 (0-307-26465-3)
The ever-surprising John Updike’s twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur’an, as expounded to him by a local mosque’s imam.
The son... Read more >
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Still Looking
Essays on American Art
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4418-4 (1-4000-4418-9)
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since... Read more >
Essays on American Art
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 8, 2005
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4418-4 (1-4000-4418-9)
When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since... Read more >
Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7084-5 (0-8129-7084-5)
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Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Edited by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7084-5 (0-8129-7084-5)
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Villages
A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-47731-6 (0-345-47731-6)
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A Novel
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-47731-6 (0-345-47731-6)
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Villages
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4290-6 (1-4000-4290-9)
John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 19, 2004
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4290-6 (1-4000-4290-9)
John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds with a... Read more >
Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Written by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6341-3 (1-4000-6341-8)
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Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
Written by New Yorker
Foreword by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6341-3 (1-4000-6341-8)
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The Early Stories
1953-1975
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46336-4 (0-345-46336-6)
Winner, 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
"He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time..." --William H. Pritchard... Read more >
1953-1975
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46336-4 (0-345-46336-6)
Winner, 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
"He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time..." --William H. Pritchard... Read more >
Of the Farm
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46822-2 (0-345-46822-8)
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 30, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46822-2 (0-345-46822-8)
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Rabbit Novels Vol. 1
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46456-9 (0-345-46456-7)
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46456-9 (0-345-46456-7)
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Rabbit Novels Vol. 2
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46457-6 (0-345-46457-5)
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46457-6 (0-345-46457-5)
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Seek My Face
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46086-8 (0-345-46086-3)
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Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46086-8 (0-345-46086-3)
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The Early Stories
1953-1975
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 864 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4072-8 (1-4000-4072-8)
** 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Fiction **
“He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time.” —William H... Read more >
1953-1975
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 864 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 21, 2003
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4072-8 (1-4000-4072-8)
** 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Fiction **
“He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work which in substantial intelligent creation will eventually be seen as second to none in our time.” —William H... Read more >
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Seek My Face
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41490-9 (0-375-41490-8)
John Updike's provocative and absorbing 20th novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much discussion and some rain. The 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who has been in her eventful life Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to... Read more >
Written by John Updike
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-41490-9 (0-375-41490-8)
John Updike's provocative and absorbing 20th novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much discussion and some rain. The 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who has been in her eventful life Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to... Read more >
Licks of Love
Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44201-7 (0-345-44201-6)
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Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-44201-7 (0-345-44201-6)
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The Blithedale Romance
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $9.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75720-4 (0-375-75720-1)
The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel, and... Read more >
Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $9.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75720-4 (0-375-75720-1)
The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel, and... Read more >
