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John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. 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. He wrote more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. He died in January 2009.
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The Witches of Eastwick
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.00
BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.
In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $15.00
BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.
In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local... Read more >
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Rabbit, Run
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download.
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The Widows of Eastwick
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $16.00
After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, “the scene of their primes,” site of their enchanted mischief more than three decades ago. Diabolical Darryl Van Horne is gone, and what was once a center of... Read more >
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Rabbit Novels Vol. 1
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
The first and second novels in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume.
RABBIT, RUN
“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and out own.”
–The Washington Post
“Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
The first and second novels in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume.
RABBIT, RUN
“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and out own.”
–The Washington Post
“Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and... Read more >
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Self-Consciousness
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1990
Price: $6.99
Self-Consciousness
One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1990
Price: $6.99
Self-Consciousness
One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an... Read more >
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $25.95
John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears 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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $25.95
John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears 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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Couples
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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 twentieth century. A classic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
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 twentieth century. A classic... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Rabbit Is Rich
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry's doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry's doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Rabbit at Rest
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working... Read more >
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Endpoint and Other Poems
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $25.00
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Terrorist
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $14.95
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 >
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Rabbit Novels Vol. 2
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
The third and fourth novel in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume.
RABBIT IS RICH
Winner of the American Book Award and
the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike’s place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of the Middle-American male.”
–Vogue
“A splendid achievement!”
–The New... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $18.95
The third and fourth novel in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume.
RABBIT IS RICH
Winner of the American Book Award and
the National Book Critics Circle Award
“Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike’s place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of the Middle-American male.”
–Vogue
“A splendid achievement!”
–The New... Read more >
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The Early Stories
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $19.95
“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, The Hudson Review, reviewing Museums and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 864 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $19.95
“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, The Hudson Review, reviewing Museums and... Read more >
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In the Beauty of the Lilies
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 21, 1997
Price: $15.95
"IT WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED AND BREATHLESS. . . . With grand ambition, [Updike] not only tracks the fortunes and falls of an American family through four generations and eight decades but also creates a shimmering, celluloid portrait of the whole century as viewed through the metaphor of the movies."
--Miami Herald
"AN... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: January 21, 1997
Price: $15.95
"IT WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED AND BREATHLESS. . . . With grand ambition, [Updike] not only tracks the fortunes and falls of an American family through four generations and eight decades but also creates a shimmering, celluloid portrait of the whole century as viewed through the metaphor of the movies."
--Miami Herald
"AN... Read more >
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The Maples Stories
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Rabbit Angstrom
Format: Hardcover, 1568 pages
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $35.00
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1568 pages
On Sale: October 17, 1995
Price: $35.00
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... Read more >
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Rabbit Redux
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $16.00
"A triumph."
NEWSDAY
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $16.00
"A triumph."
NEWSDAY
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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Centaur
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Pigeon Feathers
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
"Some of the most beautiful writing in contemporary American literature is between the covers of this book . . ." BOSTON HERALD
The triumphant collection of short stories by America's most acclaimed novelist.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.95
"Some of the most beautiful writing in contemporary American literature is between the covers of this book . . ." BOSTON HERALD
The triumphant collection of short stories by America's most acclaimed novelist.
From the Paperback edition. Read more >
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Golf Dreams
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1997
Price: $14.95
"BUBBLY AND QUIZZICAL AND LUMINOUS."
--Los Angeles Times
"JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1997
Price: $14.95
"BUBBLY AND QUIZZICAL AND LUMINOUS."
--Los Angeles Times
"JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Gertrude and Claudius
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2001
Price: $13.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A LIVING, POWERFULLY PHYSICAL WORK . . . UPDIKE IS A SUPERBLY SKILLFUL WRITER.”
–The Wall Street Journal
“WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS UPDIKE! Our own king of erudition has gone back to the Hamlet story to imagine its inception: its offstage pre-story, when Claudius fell in love with his brother’s... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2001
Price: $13.95
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A LIVING, POWERFULLY PHYSICAL WORK . . . UPDIKE IS A SUPERBLY SKILLFUL WRITER.”
–The Wall Street Journal
“WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS UPDIKE! Our own king of erudition has gone back to the Hamlet story to imagine its inception: its offstage pre-story, when Claudius fell in love with his brother’s... Read more >
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Villages
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $14.95
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 >
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Licks of Love
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $14.00
“A TOUCHING, ELEGIAC COLLECTION OF STORIES about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years, about the heart and other organs. . . . [Updike] works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming.”
–Newsweek
“THESE STORIES SHARE A THEME OF RETROSPECT AND A BITTERSWEET TONE... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2001
Price: $14.00
“A TOUCHING, ELEGIAC COLLECTION OF STORIES about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years, about the heart and other organs. . . . [Updike] works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming.”
–Newsweek
“THESE STORIES SHARE A THEME OF RETROSPECT AND A BITTERSWEET TONE... Read more >
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Trust Me
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.00
John Updike's short story collections are occasions for celebration -- the pleasures to be found in them are great indeed. This marvelous volume contains one gem after another, stories to be savored one at a time and returned to again and again.
Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are parents... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $14.00
John Updike's short story collections are occasions for celebration -- the pleasures to be found in them are great indeed. This marvelous volume contains one gem after another, stories to be savored one at a time and returned to again and again.
Here is trust betrayed -- and fulfilled. Here are parents... Read more >
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Due Considerations
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
“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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
“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 >
