Télécharger le livre :  Selected Poems
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A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth cenury and author of modern classic novel Rabbit, RunUpdike had a boundless capacity for curiosity and delight. This collection of poems...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-10-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Foreword
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John Updike's fictional antihero, Henry Bech, could not be more different from his creator. A self-confessed composite of Norman Mailer and J.D. Salinger, he cannot help but flatter himself. In this 'foreword' Updike presents us with a conceited and satirical...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-03-06

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Télécharger le livre :  More Matter
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More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections.From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England,More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary art, issues and people, told from the inimitable perspective of Pulitzer...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Basic Bech
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Basic Bech combines two classic titles -- Bech: A Book and Bech is Back -- from one of John Updike's most beloved characters.Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Golf Dreams
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'Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.'As an earnest golfer for over forty years, John Updike wrote frequently about the game. In Golf Dreams, Updike directs his...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-09-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Gossip
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Higher Gossip is a last collection of essays, poems, short stories and criticism from the late John Updike. 'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Licks of Love
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Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated fictional world. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Rich in Russia
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'There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life - impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his...

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Parution : 2011-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  My Father's Tears and Other Stories
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A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In 'Fiftieth' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, 'What does it mean: the enormity...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-07-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Endpoint and Other Poems
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Endpoint opens with a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of Updike's recent birthdays and culminate in his confrontation with his final illness. They look back on the boy that Updike once was, on his family and little town and the...

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Parution : 2009-05-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Due Considerations
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This collection of John Updike’s non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, ‘Everything Considered’, in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Widows of Eastwick
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More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees - 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...

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Parution : 2008-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Marry Me
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Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She’s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry lovesSally in return, but he’s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who’s been sleeping with Richard … As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-02-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Of the Farm
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Of the Farm recounts Joey Robinson's visit to the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives alone. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-08-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Centaur
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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....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-08-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Terrorist
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In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues – the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Memories of the Ford Administration
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When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Couples
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An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  A Month of Sundays
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Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-02-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Witches of Eastwick
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The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-02-22

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