Télécharger le livre :  S.
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
S.
In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility, the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona, where he and his enthusiastic entourage are...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-10-26

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Coup
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-10-26

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Brazil
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-10-26

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Toward the End of Time
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-10-26

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  In the Beauty of the Lilies
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Taking its title from the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES traces one family's profound journey through four generations--and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century America. It is one of John Updike's fullest and finest work of...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Rabbit Redux
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Rabbit, Run
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
The first book in John Updike's award-winning 'Rabbit' series, with an afterword by the authorIt's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile,...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Rabbit at Rest
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Rabbit is Rich
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age.It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors;...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Roger's Version
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Middle-aged, brilliant and bored, Roger Lambert is a professor of Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced that religious belief can only justified by recourse to pure faith, he is dismissive when visited by a gangling student who claims, with evangelical...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Henry Bech
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Updike's greatest creations, are described in hilarious detail, as he...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-06-01

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Still Looking
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-02-23

ePub

17,99
Télécharger le livre :  Villages
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-02-23

ePub

5,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Early Stories
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
A grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories.Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2005-04-07

ePub

12,99
Télécharger le livre :  Seek My Face
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2004-01-29

ePub

8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Gertrude And Claudius
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2001-07-05

ePub

8,99
<< < 12