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Born: 03/18/1932

John Updike Biography & Notes


John Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American novelist and short story author born in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Updike's most famous works are his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, and Rabbit, Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published about 30 novels and short story collections, as well as some literary criticism.

As a child Updike suffered from psoriasis and stammering, and he was encouraged by his mother to write. Updike entered Harvard University on a full scholarship, graduating summa cum laude in 1954 with a degree in English before joining The New Yorker as regular contributor.

He favors realism and naturalism in his writing; for instance the opening of Rabbit, Run, spans several pages describing a pick-up basketball game in intricate detail. Most of his novels follow this style at least loosely, and generally feature everyday people in middle America -- the hero of his writing is typically an everyman one can find on the streets. He on occasion abandons this setting, for instance in The Witches of Eastwick (a novel about witches, later made into a movie of the same name), The Coup (about a fictional Cold War era African dictatorship), and in his most recent work, Gertrude and Claudius (a prelude to the story of Hamlet). His works often explore sex, death, and their interrelationship.

He's a well known and practicing critic, and is often in the center of critical wars of words, including being called one of three stooges by Tom Wolfe (the other two were John Irving and Norman Mailer). Updike has also been involved in critical duels with Gore Vidal, another author notorious for his criticisms.

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A Conciencia by John Updike ( 2002)
The Afterlife and Other Stories The Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike ( 1994)

To Carter Billings, the hero of John Updike's title story, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: "A miraculous lacquer lay upon everything, beading each roadside twig, each reed of thatch in the cottage roofs, each tiny daisy trembling in the grass". All twenty-two of the stories in this collection - John Updike's eleventh, and his first in seven years - in various ways partake of this glow, as life beyond middle age is explored and found to have its own particular wonders, from omniscient golf caddies to prescient sexual rumors, from the deaths of mothers and brothers-in-law to the births of grandchildren. As death approaches, life takes on, for some of these aging heroes, a translucence, a magical fragility; vivid memory and casual misperception lend the mundane an antic texture, and the backward view, lengthening, acquires a certain grandeur. Travel, whether to England or Ireland, Italy or the isles of Greece, heightens perceptions and tensions. As is usual in Mr. Updike's fiction, spouses quarrel, lovers part, children are brave, and houses with their decor have the presence of personalities. His is a world where innocence stubbornly persists, and fresh beginnings almost outnumber losses.
American Masters American Masters The Short Stories of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike by John Cheever, John Updike, Raymond Carver ( 1998)

The Short Stories of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike5 cassettes / 7 1/2 hoursUnabridged short storiesThree American masters of the short story - Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and John Updike, brought together for the first time in one deluxe audio collection.Where Im Calling From by Raymond Carver, read by Peter RiegertFew American writers are more admired than the late Raymond Carver. InWhere Im Calling From, his highly acclaimed short story collection, Carver displays an astonishing genius. His stories are populated by characters living in an unforgivable world, suffering the burdens of displacement, divorce, despair. These people snarl and bark and speak in bursts of rough-and-tumble dialogue. They are everybody, anybody, nobody. A final testament to Carvers towering talent, Where Im Calling From is a mesmerizing masterpiece of fiction drama, and poetry.The Stories of John Cheever, read by Maria Tucci"[John Cheever is] a master storyteller." - TimeA selection of the incomparable short fiction that has, together with his novels, secured John Cheevers place among the foremost writers of our time. The stories included on this AudioBook are "The Enormous Radio", "O Youth and Beauty!", "Just One More Time", "A Woman Without a Country", and "The Worm in the Apple".Selected Stories by John Updike, read by the AuthorJohn Updike reads six stories, including "A&P", recounting a moral crisis at the checkout counter; "Pigeon Feathers"; "The Family Meadow"; " The Witness"; "The Alligators" and "Separating," which recounts the June day when Richard and Joan Maple separate, in front of their children. Mr. Updike, when asked to describe his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things described, and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its won."The method works beautifully.* American Masters also includes a 30-minute audio sampler of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, performed by Jeremy Irons
Assorted Prose Assorted Prose by John Updike ( 1965)

John Updike, known for his fiction and poetry, has assembled a motely but not unshapely collection of assorted non-fictional prose written during the last ten years.
Bech Bech A Book by John Updike ( 1998)

In this classic novel by John Updike, we return to a character as compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable Henry Bech. Famous for his writer's block, Bech is a Jew adrift in a world of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make you laugh with delight and wince in recognition.
Bech Is Back Bech Is Back by John Updike ( 1998)

The renowned Henry Bech is now fifty years old. In this wonderful classic novel, Bech reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorcée from Westchester, and--surprise to all--writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller. If youve never read Updike before, theres no better place to start. If youve read him for years, youll be delightfully reminded of John Updike's rightful place in the pantheon of quintessential American writers.
Bech at Bay Bech at Bay by John Updike ( 1999)

Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updikes previous Bech: A Book and Bech Is Back, has become older but scarcely wiser. In these five new chapters of his life, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. Still, our septuagenarian veteran of the literary wars is rewarded in the end with the coveted Nobel, stunning him into a well-deserved silence. It's not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenbergian world, but somebody has got to do it, and he brings to the task that indomitable mixture of grit and ennui that only Updike could make so deliciously funny. . . .
Bech at Bay and Before Bech at Bay and Before Three Bech Novels by John Updike ( 1998)

4 cassettes / 6 hoursRead by Ron RifkinCatch up with Bech.This unique AudioBook collects John Updikes classic Bech novels, Bech: A Book (1970), Bech is Back (1982), and the latest installment, Bech at Bay."Mr. Updike finds full scope for his gifts here: for sly and cheerfully malicious pensees on contemporary life; for busy observations on human behavior."-The New YorkerBech a Book (1970): This is where we meet him for the first time - Henry Beck, a New York writer "with his thinning curly hair and melancholy Jewish nose," whose first novel had become a minor classic. A rich and unforgettable portrait and a satire of the literary life.Bech Is Back (1982): When Bech comes back, he roams a number of third-world countries as a cultural ambassador - astonished at his won literary celebrity. From the era of Vietnam to the sagging end of the Seventies, his aesthetic embarrassments reveal truths about his trade and his times.Bech at Bay (1998): Our hero returns - older, but scarcely wiser. He is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety, of unbridled criticism and publicity in a literary world ever more cheerfully crass. it's not easy being Henry Beck in the post-Gutenbergian world, but somebody has to do it, and he brings to the take that indomitable mixture of grit and ennui that only Updike could make so deliciously funny.
Beloved by John Updike ( 1982)
The Best American Short Stories 1984 Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by John Updike ( 1984)

Presents a collection of stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
A & P by John Updike ( 1986)
The Best American Short Stories of the Century The Best American Short Stories of the Century by ( 2000)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed achievements in this quintessentially American literary genre. This expanded edition includes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 to round out the century, as well as an index including every story published in the series.
Of all the writers whose work has appeared in the series, only John Updike has been represented in each of the last five decades, from his first appearance, in 1959, to his most recent, in 1998. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison to choose the finest stories from the years since 1915. The result is "extraordinary . . . A one-volume literary history of this country's immeasurable pains and near-infinite hopes" (Boston Globe).
The Best American Short Stories of the Century by ( 1999)
Brasil Brasil by John Updike ( 2002)

In Updike's erotically charged, magic-realist love story, poor little rich girl Isabel, who is white, flees Rio with a young black man named Tristo whom she meets on the beach, with her father in pursuit. Through a series of trials, the lovers finally escape him, and Updike follows the pair over the years as they struggle to stay together, resorting at times to prostitution, the jungle, and a shaman who turns Isabel black and Tristo white--at which point he is murdered by a gang of street youths like the one he came from. Updike has said that he intended BRAZIL to be "Tristan and Isolde in the form of Brazilian characters." This is the Spanish-language version of the text.
Brazil Brazil by John Updike ( 1994)

John Updike's sixteenth novel takes place in a stylized Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Privation, violence, captivity, and reversals of fortune afflict them; his mother curses them, her father harries them with hirelings, and neither lover is absolutely faithful. Yet Tristao and Isabel hold to the faith that each is the other's fate for life, as they pass - in Shakespeare's phrase - "through nature to eternity". Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-Sixties to the late Eighties, Brazil surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence.
Buchanan Dying Buchanan Dying A Play by John Updike ( 2000)
The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures by John Updike ( 1982)

The contemporary American poet constructs witty and imaginative lyrical pieces on modern living.
The Centaur The Centaur by John Updike ( 1963)

A novel that retells the ancient myth of Chiron in modern terms within a contemporary setting.
A Century of Arts and Letters A Century of Arts and Letters by John Updike ( 1998)

Election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters is counted among the foremost honors an American in the arts can receive; its ranks are limited to 250 members. And although the Academy is best known for the awards and prizes it grants artists, writers, and musicians, the organization itself remains as little-understood as its awards are acclaimed, a quiet Pantheon on an obscure street in upper Manhattan....
A Child's Calendar A Child's Calendar by John Updike ( 1999)

Updike presents a collection of 12 poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December. Full color.
Chip Kidd Chip Kidd Work 1986-2006 by Chip Kidd ( 2005)
Christmas at the New Yorker Christmas at the New Yorker Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art by ( 2005)

A special holiday collection from the pages of The New Yorker offers a timeless anthology of short fiction, poetry, cartoons, cover art, and nonfiction from the past eighty years, featuring works by Margaret Atwood, Charles Addams, John Cheever, H. L. Mencken, William Steig, James Thurber, Calvin Trillin, John Updike, E. B. White, and others.
Christmas at the New Yorker Christmas at the New Yorker Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art by New Yorker ( 2004)

From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists.

Here are seasonal stories, poems, memoirs, and more, including such classics as John Cheever’s 1949 story “Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor,” about an elevator operator in a Park Avenue apartment building who experiences the fickle power of charity; John Updike’s “The Carol Sing,” in which a group of small-town carolers remember an exceptionally enthusiastic fellow singer (“How he would jubilate, how he would God-rest those merry gentlemen, how he would boom out when the male voices became King Wenceslas”); and Richard Ford’s acerbic and elegiac 1998 story “Crèche,” in which an unmarried Hollywood lawyer spends an unsettling holiday with her sister’s estranged husband and kids.

Here, too, are S. J. Perelman’s 1936 “Waiting for Santy,” a playlet in the style of Clifford Odets labor drama (the setting: “The sweatshop of Santa Claus, North Pole”), and Vladimir Nabokov’s heartbreaking 1975 story “Christ-mas,” in which a father grieving for his lost son in a world “ghastly with sadness” sees a tiny miracle on Christmas Eve.

And it wouldn’t be Christmas—or The New Yorker—without dozens of covers and cartoons by Addams, Arno, Chast, and others, or the mischievous verse of Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, and Ogden Nash (“Do you know Mrs. Millard Fillmore Revere?/On her calendar, Christmas comes three hundred and sixty-five times a year”).

From Jazz Age to New Age, E. B. White to Garrison Keillor, these works represent eighty years of wonderful keepsakes for Christmas, from The New Yorker to you.
Coffee With Hemingway Coffee With Hemingway by Kirk Curnutt ( 2007)
Collected Poems 1953-1993 Collected Poems 1953-1993 by John Updike ( 1995)

Now in paperback, John Updike's dazzling collection of poetry--as varied as the 40 years in which they were written--including nearly every poem from his five previously published collections, and more than 70 new poems and his light verse.
Collected Poems 1953-1993 by John Updike ( 1993)

A varied anthology of poetry--representing forty years of work--encompasses nearly every poem from five previously published collections, as well as sixty new poems and a selection of light verse.
Color and Ecstasy The Art of Hyman Bloom by Isabelle Dervaux, John Updike, National Academy of Design (U.S.), Hyman Bloom ( 2002)
Complete Book of Covers from the New Yorker 1925-1989 by John Updike ( 1989)

Briefly looks at the magazine's history and design, shows sixty-five years of covers, and lists the artists.
The Complete Henry Bech The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike ( 2001)

A complete collection of Bech stories covers the entire career of this classic character, the author's literary alter ego, from his first appearance in The New Yorker thirty years ago to the present, and includes Bech: A Book, Bech Is Back, and Bech at Bay.
Complete Shorter Fiction Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville ( 1997)

Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic passions of Moby-Dick. In a story like "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language -- he displayed an unflinching precision and insight and empathy in his depiction of the drastically alienated inner life of the title character. In "Benito Cereno," he addressed the great racial dilemmas of the nineteenth century with a profound, almost surreal imaginative clarity. And in Billy, Budd, Sailor, the masterpiece of his last years, he fused the knowledge and craft gained from a lifetime's magnificent work into a pure, stark, flawlessly composed tale of innocence betrayed and destroyed. Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, the local, was equally sublime.
Conejo En El Recuerdo Y Otras Historias / Rabbit Remembered and Other Stories by John Updike ( 2002)
Conejo Es Rico / Rabbit is Rich Conejo Es Rico / Rabbit is Rich by John Updike ( 2002)

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 flame into his life, and the ever-volatile relationship with Janice, his wife. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Conversations With John Updike Conversations With John Updike by John Updike, James Plath ( 1994)

Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993
The Coup The Coup by John Updike ( 1992)

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 overt difference from the circumstances of his own life, Updike has said that THE COUP is "autobiography thinly disguised."
Couples by John Updike ( 1968)

Explores the consequences of marital infidelity in a small New England community.
Couples/Cassette by John Updike ( 1972)

In the Boston suburb of Tarbox live a group of well-to-do married couples whose lives intersect through mutual infidelities and shared sexual obsessions. John Updike charts the links and fissures in this intricate and hedonistic social network with his usual grace and wit. Sexually candid, even shocking at the time it was published, this 1968 novel--an international bestseller--is an unsparing look at the "sexual revolution" in America and its consequences, and at Updike's own generation as they approached middle age in the 1970s.
Deadly Sins Deadly Sins by A. S. Byatt, Mary Gordon, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Howard, William Trevor, John Updike, Edgar Box ( 1996)

Here are eight of the world's most famous authors ruminating on their favorite transgressions: Thomas Pynchon on Sloth, Mary Gordon on Anger, John Updike on Lust, William Trevor on Gluttony, Richard Howard on Avarice, Gore Vidal on Pride, A. S. Byatt on Envy, Joyce Carol Oates on Despair.
Due Considerations Essays and Criticism by John Updike ( 2008)

A collection of essays, opinions, and book-reviews by preeminent man of letters John Updike, DUE CONSIDERATIONS switches effortlessly between personal and critical writing. Whatever his topic, Updike's thinking is stellar and his prose is polished and sharp.
Due Considerations Due Considerations Essays and Criticism by John Updike ( 2007)

A masterful new collection of nonfiction writings by the acclaimed novelist and critic features charming essays on travel, faith, and literature, as he pays tribute to William Shawn, William Maxwell, James Thurber, and E. B. White; examines the writer's existence and role; and discusses topics ranging from Coco Chanel to the sinking of the Lusitania. 20,000 first printing.
The Early Stories 1953-1975 The Early Stories 1953-1975 by John Updike ( 2004)

“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 Women (1972)

A harvest and not a winnowing, The Early Stories preserves almost all of the short fiction John Updike published between 1954 and 1975.

The stories are arranged in eight sections, of which the first, “Olinger Stories,” already appeared as a paperback in 1964; in its introduction, Updike described Olinger, Pennsylvania, as “a square mile of middle-class homes physically distinguished by a bend in the central avenue that compels some side streets to deviate from the grid pattern.” These eleven tales, whose heroes age from ten to over thirty but remain at heart Olinger boys, are followed by groupings titled “Out in the World,” “Married Life,” and “Family Life,” tracing a common American trajectory. Family life is disrupted by the advent of “The Two Iseults,” a bifurcation originating in another small town, Tarbox, Massachusetts, where the Puritan heritage co-exists with post-Christian morals. “Tarbox Tales” are followed by “Far Out,” a group of more or less experimental fictions on the edge of domestic space, and “The Single Life,” whose protagonists are unmarried and unmoored.

Of these one hundred three stories, eighty first appeared in The New Yorker, and the other twenty-three in journals from the enduring Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s to the defunct Big Table and Transatlantic Review. All show Mr. Updike’s wit and verbal felicity, his reverence for ordinary life, and his love of the transient world.


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The Eighth Day The Eighth Day by Thornton Niven Wilder ( 2007)

The lives of the two southern Illinois families become intertwined after John Barrington Ashley is convicted for the murder of his employer, Breckenridge Lansing, in a novel set in a midwestern town at the turn of the twentieth century.
Endpoint and Other Poems Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike ( 2009)

This collection of poems from one of the 20th century's most distinguished American authors was completed only weeks before his death in January 2009, and is being released just in time for National Poetry Month in April.
Facing Nature Poems by John Updike ( 1985)

Updike's poetry focuses on facing nature at a number of levels, as in a section of sonnets on aging and death, a sonnet sequence, describing a week in Spain, on insomnia and dread, and a long poem on Jupiter's four major moons.
The First Picture Book by John Updike ( 1991)
Gertrude and Claudius Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike ( 2000)

Set in the Denmark of Shakespeare's Hamlet before the action in the play, this novel of Hamlet's parents speculates on the forces that led Gertrude into a middleaged affair with her husband's younger brother.
Gertrudis Y Claudio / Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike ( 2000)

John Updike takes the Hamlet story as the basis for this absorbing novel about power and lust in 12th-century Denmark. Using both Shakespeare's play and original historical sources, Updike concentrates his narrative on Danish history, and on the queen and her illicit passion for her husband's brother, rather than on the disaffected young university student, Prince Hamlet; in fact, the novel ends just as Shakespeare's play is beginning. A New York Times "Editors' Choice" for one of the best books of 2000. This is the Spanish-language version of the text.
The Golden West The Golden West Hollywood Stories by Daniel Fuchs, Christopher Carduff ( 2005)
Golf, the Greatest Game The Usga Celebrates Golf in America by Arnold Palmer ( 1996)

A lavishly illustrated book that celebrates the 100th anniversary of the USGA and includes contributions from golf's greatest writers and an introduction by John Updike.
Hacia El Final Del Tiempo / Toward the End of Time by John Updike ( 1999)

Updike's 18th novel is an apocalyptic view of the future that takes place in the year 2020, after a nuclear war with China that has reduced American politics and government to rival bands of itinerant warlords. Ben Turnbull lives in a well-to-do suburb of Boston with his wife Gloria and their five children. They pay protection money in lieu of taxes, and manage to live a normal enough life, one that has room for the Updikean themes of infidelity, despair, ennui, and nostalgia. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
The Haunted Major The Haunted Major by Robert Marshall ( 1999)

Originally printed in 1902, "The Haunted Major" tells a story of an epic golf match, the courtship of an American millionairess, and the appearance of a Scottish ghost.
Hugging the Shore Essays and Criticism by John Updike ( 1983)

Composed chiefly of Updike's book reviews of the past eight years, this collection includes pieces on Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, and Muriel Spark, on actresses Doris Day and Louise Brooks and an appendix of imaginary interviews, humorous pieces, and essays.
In the Beauty of the Lilies In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike ( 1996)

Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become a salesman, he becomes a movie addict as well.
Insurgents, Terrorists, And Militias Insurgents, Terrorists, And Militias The Warriors of Contemporary Combat by Andrea J. Dew ( 2006)
Is Sex Necessary? Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do by E. B. White, James Thurber ( 2004)

The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life -- romance, love, and marriage. A masterpiece of drollery, this 75th Anniversary Edition stands the test of time with its sidesplitting spoof of men, women, and psychologists; more than fifty funny illustrations by Thurber; and a new foreword by John Updike.
The John Updike Collection The John Updike Collection by John Updike ( 2003)

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me -- to give the mundane its beautiful due."
Just Looking Essays on Art by John Updike ( 1989)

John Updike, originally trained as an artist, has written numerous essays on artists such as Sargent, Wyeth, the Impressionists, and many more. All of them are collected in this volume.
Karl Shapiro Karl Shapiro Selected Poems by Karl Shapiro ( 2003)

A reassessment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet explores the range of his work and considers his role as a key writer of the postwar period. Edited by the author of Rabbit at Rest.
La Belleza De Los Lirios / In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike ( 2002)

John Updike's 17th novel is the absorbing saga of four generations of Wilmots, whose lives and occupations span huge portions of 20th-century America, running the gamut from preacher to encyclopedia salesman to movie star. The Wilmots' religious impulses take various forms: Clarence Wilmot is a traditional Presbyterian minister whose faith deserts him; his son, Teddy, is an atheist; his daughter, Essie, is a New Ager; and Essie's son is a Branch Davidian-style fanatic. Updike's lyrical exploration of the lives of middle-class Americans--achieved here with his usual grace and wit--is also a searching look at the place of religion in American life. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Land of the Commonwealth Land of the Commonwealth A Portrait of the Conserved Landscapes of Massachusetts by ( 2000)

Nearly two hundred photographs introduce readers to the "preserved" lands in Massachusetts in this colorful tour of some of the most beautiful woodlands on the east coast.
Lectures on Literature Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov ( 2002)

Nabokov's brilliantly insightful and slightly eccentric Cornell lectures are collected in this volume, with an appreciative introduction by John Updike.
Letters of E. B. White Letters of E. B. White by E. B. White ( 2007)

Updated to include newly released letters written between 1976 and 1985, a thirtieth anniversary edition shares the New Yorker writer's and classic author's thoughts about such topics as the uncertainty of the future, his marriage, and his relationships with such colleagues as James Thurber, Groucho Marx, and John Updike. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Licks of Love Licks of Love Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered by John Updike ( 2001)

The 12 stories in this collection are about love in all its varieties, and they take place in some of Updike's perennial settings--New England, New York City, and the fictional small town of Olinger, Pennsylvania. Also included is a novella which serves as a bittersweet sequel to Updike's classic quartet of "Rabbit" novels: in RABBIT REMEMBERED, Rabbit's survivors, in particular his son Nelson and his illegitimate daughter Annabel, while busy with their own post-millennium lives, remember him after his death in ways that may or may not have pleased him. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
Living With a Writer Living With a Writer by Dale Salwak ( 2004)

A collection of essays on the benefits and challenges of being, or living with, a writer includes Nadine Gordimer's reflections on living with herself, Margaret Drabble on her relationship with Malcolm Holroyd, and Paul Theroux's experiences with V. S. Naipaul.
Lost Balls Lost Balls Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies by Charles Lindsay ( 2005)

A humorous look inside the world of golf provides a photographic study of the diverse hazards where golf balls go astray, including woods, bunkers, wetlands, and the rough--as well as golfers' unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green, capturing the unique features of such celebrated courses as St. Andrews, Pebble Beach, Troon, and more.
Lots of Laughs! Lots of Laughs! by Neil Gaiman, Ron Carlson, John Updike, Leonard Michaels, Etgar Keret, David Schickler, Neil Gainman ( 2005)
The Maples Stories The Maples Stories by John Updike ( 2009)
Marry Me Marry Me A Romance by John Updike ( 1979)

In Greenwood, Connecticut, during the period of the Kennedy administration, Jerry and Sally, both married, have an affair charged with doubts, subtle intensities, and a deep sense of caring.
Memorias De La Administracion Ford / Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike ( 2002)

In John Updike's 15th novel (published in 1996), Alfred Clayton, a history professor at a junior college, in the course of writing about the brief administration of President Ford, ponders his own personal history. While Ford was president, Alf's marriage was failing, and he was caught up in a doomed love affair. He was also writing a book on the presidency of James Buchanan. Updike shuttles between the worlds of Clayton and Buchanan in a novel that illuminates his views of American manners, morals, and politics. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Memories of the Ford Administration Memories of the Ford Administration by John Updike ( 1996)

In John Updike's 15th novel (published in 1996), Alfred Clayton, a history professor at a junior college, in the course of writing about the brief administration of President Ford, ponders his own personal history. While Ford was president, Alf's marriage was failing, and he was caught up in a doomed love affair. He was also writing a book on the presidency of James Buchanan. Updike shuttles between the worlds of Clayton and Buchanan in a novel that illuminates his views of American manners, morals, and politics.
Midpoint and Other Poems by John Updike ( 1969)

Anthology of nearly fifty poems in which the author takes stock of his life at its midpoint, and examines such subjects as love, death, animals, angels, dream artifacts, and the naked ape.
A Month of Sundays by John Updike ( 1975)

A Month Of Sundays is John Updike's seventh novel that concerns a month of seventh days, a month of enforced rest and relaxation .This book has achieved a sureness of touch, and a supplement of style.
More Matter More Matter Essays and Criticism by John Updike ( 1999)

Updike's 50th book and fifth collection of assorted prose brings together eight years worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introduction, and paragraphs about himself and his work. 46 illustrations.
More Stately Mansions by John Updike ( 1987)
Museums and Women, and Other Stories by John Updike ( 1972)

Short stories focus on diverse facets of contemporary life, marriage, values, and mores.
The Music School The Music School Short Stories by John Updike ( 1966)

Short stories about various people who must find their ways in the modern world.
Jesters Dozen by John Updike ( 1984)
My Father's Tears and Other Stories My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike ( 2009)

John Updike's first collection of short stories in nearly a decade will unfortunately also be his last completed new work to be published. These compelling tales serve as a fitting finale to his legendary career, but they serve as much more than a mere sentimental remembrance of a once-great writer, as Updike effortlessly weaves vibrant ideas into sentences which disguise wisdom as simple observation. Many of the subjects are appropriately autumnal, as aging men confront a present time and place that seems out of sorts with their memories of youth. In "Morocco," a man remembers a harrowing trip when he and his family were alienated in the title country, unable to discern between genuine threats and their own xenophobic paranoia. In the book's title story, a young man sees that his identity is composed solely of an endless series of agreements and disagreements with his father's way of life, a realization that comes to him refracted through his memory of seeing his father cry for the first and only time. This collection assures that, as he passes from presence into memory, John Updike will forever remain a relevant and revelatory writer.
Brother Grasshopper by John Updike ( 1990)
My Father's Tears and Other Stories My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike ( 2009)

John Updike's first collection of short stories in nearly a decade will unfortunately also be his last completed new work to be published. These compelling tales serve as a fitting finale to his legendary career, but they serve as much more than a mere sentimental remembrance of a once-great writer, as Updike effortlessly weaves vibrant ideas into sentences which disguise wisdom as simple observation. Many of the subjects are appropriately autumnal, as aging men confront a present time and place that seems out of sorts with their memories of youth. In "Morocco," a man remembers a harrowing trip when he and his family were alienated in the title country, unable to discern between genuine threats and their own xenophobic paranoia. In the book's title story, a young man sees that his identity is composed solely of an endless series of agreements and disagreements with his father's way of life, a realization that comes to him refracted through his memory of seeing his father cry for the first and only time. This collection assures that, as he passes from presence into memory, John Updike will forever remain a relevant and revelatory writer.
The Alligators by John Updike ( 1989)

Charlie joins the others in his fifth grade class in tormenting and ridiculing the unpopular new girl Joan, until a strange dream prompts him to treat her differently.
My Father's Tears and Other Stories My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike ( 2009)

John Updike's first collection of short stories in nearly a decade will unfortunately also be his last completed new work to be published. These compelling tales serve as a fitting finale to his legendary career, but they serve as much more than a mere sentimental remembrance of a once-great writer, as Updike effortlessly weaves vibrant ideas into sentences which disguise wisdom as simple observation. Many of the subjects are appropriately autumnal, as aging men confront a present time and place that seems out of sorts with their memories of youth. In "Morocco," a man remembers a harrowing trip when he and his family were alienated in the title country, unable to discern between genuine threats and their own xenophobic paranoia. In the book's title story, a young man sees that his identity is composed solely of an endless series of agreements and disagreements with his father's way of life, a realization that comes to him refracted through his memory of seeing his father cry for the first and only time. This collection assures that, as he passes from presence into memory, John Updike will forever remain a relevant and revelatory writer.
In the Beauty of Lillies by John Updike ( 1996)

John Updike's 17th novel is the absorbing saga of four generations of Wilmots, whose lives and occupations span huge portions of 20th-century America, running the gamut from preacher to encyclopedia salesman to movie star. The Wilmots' religious impulses take various forms: Clarence Wilmot is a traditional Presbyterian minister whose faith deserts him; his son, Teddy, is an atheist; his daughter, Essie, is a New Ager; and Essie's son is a Branch Davidian-style fanatic. Updike's lyrical exploration of the lives of middle-class Americans--achieved here with his usual grace and wit--is also a searching look at the place of religion in American life.
The New Yorker Out Loud by John Updike ( 1997)
Odd Jobs Odd Jobs Essays and Criticism by John Updike ( 1991)

A collection of essays and criticism discusses odd jobs, the female body, the Fourth of July, the Gospel of Matthew, Shaw, Anderson, Hemingway, Roth, Murdoch, Eco, Garcia Marquez, and others.
Best of Playboy Fiction Best of Playboy Fiction by John Updike ( 1998)

A collection of stories previously published in Playboy magazine includes "Gesturing" by John Updike, "The Birthday Party" by Evan Hunter, and "The Reading of a Will" by John Knowles.
The Portrait of a Lady The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 1999)

"The mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl...a certain young woman affronting her destiny" is how Henry James describes his first perception of Isabel Archer, who grew into one of his most magnificent heroines. An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she desires, with grace and courage, to find it herself. Two eligible suitors approach her and are refused. She then becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. To him, she represents a superior prize worth at least 70 thousand pounds; through him, she faces a tragic choice. The greatest of the novels of James's early period, PORTRAIT OF A LADY was deeply influenced by both Turgenev and George Eliot.
The Adventures of Chaucey Alcock by John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Lawrence Sanders, Jay McInerney, John Irwing ( 1997)
Best of Playboy Fiction by John Updike ( 1998)
Of the Farm Of the Farm by John Updike ( 1987)

New York advertising man brings his new family to visit the farm of his youth, thereby encountering ghosts of the past.
Picked-Up Pieces by John Updike ( 1975)

Collects fugitive reviews, speeches, essays, introductions, impressions, ruminations, and interview excerpts from the author's past ten years.
On Literary Biography On Literary Biography by John Updike ( 1999)

In On Literary Biography, John Updike lays out his skeptical, yet generous, reflections on reading and writing about the lives of literary figures. Asking what satisfactions literary biography may offer readers, he decides that "the first and perhaps the most worthy" is in allowing us to continue and expand our acquaintance with an author who interests us, so that we may "partake again, from another angle, of the joys we have experienced within the author's oeuvre." He tells of finding in a biography of Proust the solid details of what he had previously encountered through that writer's subjective sensibility, but he acknowledges that there can be other reasons for attending to the genre. If the reader is also a writer, a desire to learn the details of a fellow's craft may come into play. Or "in a diagnostic mood, " readers may seek to relate features of a writer's achievement to the psychological and physical circumstances in which it occurred. Some of us, some of the time, may also take pleasure in seeing the human flaws of writers exposed and in watching as the literary mentality is turned to show an unsavory side. Updike calls one variant of the biography that uncovers personal failings the Judas biography -- by which he means an unflattering portrait by a former friend or spouse. To readers of such accounts, whom he describes as accomplices in their creation, he grants the defense of desiring to get to a truth behind the artfulness of the fiction writer. Declaring his own disinclination to be the subject of biographical treatment, he imagines a biographer "disturbing my children, quizzing my ex-wife, bugging my present wife, seeking for Judases among my friends, rummaging throughyellowing old clippings, quoting in extenso bad reviews I would rather forget, and getting everything slightly wrong."
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike ( 1962)

Selected stories, demonstrating the author's insight into human emotions and the search for happiness.
The Poorhouse Fair The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike ( 1977)

The inhabitants of a central New Jersey poorhouse argue about the decline of patriotism, tradition, and religion while participating in the activities of their annual fair.
Problems and Other Stories Problems and Other Stories by John Updike ( 1985)

A 1979 collection of Updike's stories, most of them first published in the New Yorker.
Rabbit Angstrom Rabbit Angstrom Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, & Rabbit at Rest by John Updike ( 1995)

Four works in one volume
Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike ( 1981)

The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last -- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
Rabbit Redux Rabbit Redux by John Updike ( 1996)

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, 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. How he resolves--or further complicates--his problems makes a compelling read.
Rabbit at Rest Rabbit at Rest by John Updike ( 1990)

Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife who has suddenly gone to work.
Rabbit, Run & Rabbit Redux Rabbit, Run & Rabbit Redux by John Updike ( 2003)

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 images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings.”
–The Village Voice


RABBIT REDUX

“ ‘Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling–a great and beautiful thing . . .’ these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike’s Rabbit Redux.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece.”
–Time
El Regreso De Conejo / Rabbit Redux by John Updike ( 2003)

In Updike's poignant sequel to RABBIT, RUN, the Angstroms are caught up in the social turmoil of the 1960s: sexual adventures, racial conflict, drugs. Updike takes the opportunity to explore the decade's tumultuous changes as they affect the traditional American values on which Rabbit Angstrom--like so many other Americans--fancied his life was based. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Lo Que Queda Por Vivir by John Updike ( 2002)
Roger's Version Roger's Version by John Updike ( 1986)

When divinity school professor Roger Lambert is confronted by Dale Kohler, a young computer hacker who believes that scientific evidence of God's existence is accumulating, Lambert, a follower of Karl Barth, challenges Kohler's faith.
S. by John Updike ( 1988)

Sarah Worth, alias S., leaves her New England home and family to join a Hindu religious commune in Arizona where she falls in love with the spiritual leader, Arhat.
Parejas / Couples by John Updike ( 2002)
Same Door by John Updike ( 1959)

The celebrated contemporary American writer probes the processes and failures of human communication and interaction.
Seek My Face Seek My Face by John Updike ( 2002)

John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, the interviewer and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001.
Selected Stories John Updike by John Updike ( 1985)

2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by John Updike


John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published.

"A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story.

"Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds.

"The Family Meadow" describes a piece of America, a picnic reunion in New Jersey.

"The Witnesses" and "The Alligators" both deal with love, as felt by a middle-aged man and a fifth-grade boy.

"Separating" recounts the June day when Richard and Joan Maple separate, in front of their four children.

Mr. Updike, when asked to described his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things describes, and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its own."
The method works beautifully.
Self-consciousness Memoirs by John Updike ( 1989)

The distinguished author offers six related personal essays that detail the events of his childhood, his problems with a stammer and psoriasis, his thoughts on the Vietnam War, his family, and other topics.
September 11, 2001 September 11, 2001 American Writers Respond by ( 2002)
Seventy Poems by John Updike ( 1972)
Soft Spring Night in Shillington by John Updike ( 1986)

Updike returns to his home town of Shillington, Pennsylvania, and calls up a wonderful collection of vivid and poignant memories. This bit of his autobiography was originally published as one of the essays in SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.
Song of Solomon Song of Solomon Love Poetry of the Spirit by ( 1999)

The Song of Solomon is unique among the books of the Bible in that its central theme is the celebration of erotic love. In this book, Biblical scholars look at the bride who declares her desire and admiration for her lover while the bridegroom expresses his delight in the supreme physical beauty of his bride as the Daughters of Jerusalem look on. The complete text of the Song of Solomon is reproduced here from the classic King James Version of 1611.
Still Looking Still Looking Essays on American Art by John Updike ( 2005)

The world of American art is examined in a collection of eighteen essays of art criticism--covering such topics as early American portraiture and landscape painting, late-nineteenth-century masters Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and and the work of such astists as James McNeill Whistler, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Hopper, and others--by a premier novelist of the twentieth century.
Terrorist Terrorist by John Updike ( 2006)

Eighteen-year-old Ahmad, the son of an Irish-American mother and long-gone Egyptian father, is contemptuous of the self-indulgent society surrounding him in suburban New Prospect, New Jersey, and devoted to the teachings of Islam, becomes drawn into an insidious terrorist plot.
Terrorista/ Terrorist Terrorista/ Terrorist by John Updike ( 2007)
Too Far to Go Too Far to Go The Maples Stories by John Updike ( 1979)

Stories that trace the decline and fall of a marriage, a history made up of the happiness of growing children and shared life, and the sadness of growing estrangement and the misunderstandings of love.
Tossing and Turning Poems by John Updike ( 1977)

Poems of various forms, moods, and purposes range from childhood delights to mature love, in memory, celebration, and reflection.
Corre, Conejo / Rabbit, Run by John Updike ( 2002)

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 his sense of duty and his intimations of life's real depth, he is unable to commit himself to one or the other. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Krolik Razbogatel by John Updike, T. A. Kudriavtseva ( 2001)
Telephone Poles and Other Poems Telephone Poles and Other Poems by John Updike ( 1963)

Both serious and light poems are brought together in this collection of works by the New England writer.
Toward the End of Time by John Updike ( 1998)

JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience."   --Chicago TribuneToward the End of Time "is the journal of a 66-year-old man, Ben Turnbull . . . [which] reveals not only the world but the wanderings of his wits. . . . So what if he jumps from a United States in the next century, disintegrating after a war with China, to ancient Egypt, or to virtual reality? So what if characters appear and disappear like phantoms in a dream? . . . Turnbulls journal is like Walden gone haywire. . . . If Bens ruthlessness is evenhanded, so is his alarming intelligence; it falls on every scene, person, object, and thought in the book, giving it an eerie ambiance."--The New York Times Book Review "A BOOK AIMED NOT TO RESOLVE BUT TO AROUSE A READER'S WONDER . . . Vintage Updike: marital angst worked out against the chilly backdrop of privilege, rendered with a lyricism and insight and eye for detail reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen."--The Miami Herald "WONDERFUL RUSHES OF NEAR-MELVILLEAN PROSE . . . Toward the End of Time has a force that gets under your skin."--New York Review of Books A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
Krolik Vernulsia by John Updike, T. A. Kudriavtseva ( 2001)
Trio Trio by Robert Pinget ( 2005)
Trust Me Trust Me Short Stories by John Updike ( 1996)

Here is trust betrayed--and fulfilled. Here are parents struggling to maintain that fragile claim on their offspring's childish awe. Here are husbands and wives as only Updike knows them. Here is life as we live it, in 22 stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career.
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike ( 2006)
Valentine Generation and Other Stories by John Updike ( 1981)
Poor Arnold's Almanac by Arnold Roth ( 1998)
The John Updike Audio Collection The John Updike Audio Collection by John Updike ( )

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.

In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswich, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me, to give the mundane its beautiful due."
Davai Pozhenimsia Roman by John Updike, T. A. Kudriavtseva ( 2001)
Villages Villages by John Updike ( 2005)

From his childhood in the eastern Pennsylvania village of Willow in the 1930s, to his innovative software company in tiny Middle Falls, Connecticut, to his retirement years in twenty-first-century Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts, Owen Mackenzie finds his life irrevocably altered by the communal humanity of the small towns in which he lives.
Rabbit Run by John Updike ( 2001)

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 his sense of duty and his intimations of life's real depth, he is unable to commit himself to one or the other.
Walden Walden by Henry David Thoreau, J. Lyndon Shanley ( 2004)

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.
El Centauro / The Centaur by John Updike ( 2002)

This portrait of small-town life in Pennsylvania is seen through the eyes of Chiron, the centaur of Greek mythology. On the surface, this is a novel about teenager Peter Caldwell and his father George Caldwell, a schoolteacher at Olinger High. Gradually, however, it becomes clear that Peter and George are really Prometheus and Chiron, and that all the other characters and events find correspondences in Greek mythology. John Updike has said that this early novel is loosely based on his own relationship with his father, who was a schoolteacher. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Conversaciones con Ernest Hemingway/ Coffee with Hemingway by Kira Curnutt ( 2007)
Golf Dreams by John Updike ( 1996)

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the AuthorGolf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: "Golf is a trip."Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the peculiar charms of bad golf, and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle.John Updike has been writing about golf since he took the game up at the age of twenty-five. In the nearly forty years of pleasurable bafflement that have followed, he has composed essays for Golf Digest and short stories for The New Yorker concerning the sport.His memories, insights, and witty remarks make this a truly unique audiobook. John Updike will tell you, in his own voice and his own words, how he learned the game, plays the game, and loves the game.
Golf Dreams Writings on Golf by John Updike ( 1997)

The author brings together his writings--culled from "The New Yorker," "Golf Digest," and his fiction--on the wonderful world of golf, sharing thoughts on the game, good and bad golf, the golfing mystique, fellow players, and technical niceties.
My Father's Tears and Other Stories My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike ( 2009)

A collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author includes tales set in his native Pennsylvania, the New England suburbs, and foreign countries, all depicting different facets of the American experience from the Depression through the aftermath of 9/11.
New York New York The Lenape Edition by Gay Talese, John Updike, Ric Burns, Tom Wolfe ( 2009)
New York New York The Liberty Edition by Gay Talese, John Updike, Ric Burns, Tom Wolfe ( 2008)
New York The Columbus Edition by Gay Talese, John Updike, Ric Burns, Tom Wolfe ( 2008)
We Always Treat Women Too Well We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau, Barbara Wright ( 2003)

Set in Dublin during the 1916 rebellion, this novel tells of a beauty trapped in a post office seized by rebels. This tale celebrates the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pure pleasure. "A patent spoof on patriotism, murderousness, seductiveness, Irishness, and piety." - John Updike
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike ( 2010)
Wolf Kahn's America Wolf Kahn's America An Artist's Travels by Wolf Kahn ( 2003)

The artist shares his unique perspective on the creative process--and many of his own paintings--as he details his journeys across America in search of inspiration while inviting readers to take a peek at his own creative process, recounting the adventures he has had and the people he has met along the way.
My Father's Tears and Other Stories My Father's Tears and Other Stories Library Edition by John Updike ( 2009)

John Updike's first collection of short stories in nearly a decade will unfortunately also be his last completed new work to be published. These compelling tales serve as a fitting finale to his legendary career, but they serve as much more than a mere sentimental remembrance of a once-great writer, as Updike effortlessly weaves vibrant ideas into sentences which disguise wisdom as simple observation. Many of the subjects are appropriately autumnal, as aging men confront a present time and place that seems out of sorts with their memories of youth. In "Morocco," a man remembers a harrowing trip when he and his family were alienated in the title country, unable to discern between genuine threats and their own xenophobic paranoia. In the book's title story, a young man sees that his identity is composed solely of an endless series of agreements and disagreements with his father's way of life, a realization that comes to him refracted through his memory of seeing his father cry for the first and only time. This collection assures that, as he passes from presence into memory, John Updike will forever remain a relevant and revelatory writer.
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike ( 2008)

More than three decades after the events of The Witches of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, all now widowed, return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick for the summer after many years away and find themselves dealing with the lingering legacy of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the inroads of aging. 200,000 first printing.
The Witches of Eastwick The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike ( 2008)

In John Updike's hugely entertaining fantasy of sex and revenge, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are divorcées living in Eastwick, Rhode Island, a town that was a haven of witchcraft during the colonial years. After each is betrayed in her turn by Darryl Van Horne, a local womanizing cad, they come together to work out a curse against him. THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK was made into a 1987 film, starring Jack Nicholson as the devil, and Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer as the three witches.
The World of William Steig by William Steig, Lee Lorenz ( 1998)

William Steig, the godfather of New Yorker cartoonists, began his career at the magazine in 1930. After achieving acclaim with his gang of street urchins, affectionately nicknamed the "Small Fry," he branched out, exploring through his drawings the psychological undercurrents in relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, self and society. In such groundbreaking collections as About People (1939), Persistent Faces (1945), and The Agony in the Kindergarten (1950), Steig laid bare the raw insecurities of childhood. In the process, he introduced symbolic art to mainstream audiences and permanently elevated the place of the cartoon in American culture. Beginning in the 1960s, Steig demonstrated his understanding and awe of children in numerous award-winning picture books, including such classics as Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1970 Caldecott Medal), Dominic (1972), Gorky Rises (1980), Doctor De Soto (1982 Newberry Award), and Shrek! (1990). Now ninety years old, he continues to express his comic perception of the human plight. His thirtieth book for children, Pete's a Pizza, was published this year. Includes nearly 400 illustrations, encompassing Steig's seventy years as an artist, including classic New Yorker covers and cartoons, seminal spreads such as "Woe" and "Holy Wedlock," and color illustrations from award-winning children's books
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu John Updike on Ted Williams by John Updike ( 2010)

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