John Updike, Author Knopf Publishing Group $35 (928p) ISBN 978-0-375-40630-0
Many American writers this century have been called brilliant and accomplished, but Updike is the real thing, as this huge collection of personal essays, social commentary, book reviews, introductions, interviews and occasional pieces amply attests.
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John Updike, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-40006-3
One of the several new and exciting paths Updike takes in this magnificent new novel is its futuristic setting--the year 2020, after the Sino-American Conflict has destroyed the government, rendered the Great Plains a radioactive dustbowl and left...
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John Updike, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-40368-2
At this juncture of his life, ""semiobscure"" literary writer Henry Bech (Bech: A Book; Bech Is Back) may be ""at bay""--attacked by fellow writers, sued for libel, derided by critics, consumed by worry about his place in the literary pantheon--but...
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John Updike, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-22391-8
22 short stories from Updike, many concerned with aging and attempts to sustain intimate relationships. (Nov.)
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John Updike, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (210p) ISBN 978-0-394-57904-7
The wit and sharp observation one expects from novelist/short story writer/poet/essayist Updike are found in these 23 pieces on art, supplemented by 193 plates. He offers trenchant views on Monet (``painting Nature in her nudity''); John Singer...
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John Updike, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-22313-0
Updike's Tristan-and-Isolde tale of doomed lovers from opposite ends of Brazil's social stratum was a PW bestseller. (Feb.)
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John Updike, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-22188-4
Obstensibly preparing a paper on the Ford administration, Updike's narrator Alfred Clayton, a professor at a New Hampshire junior college, finds his impressions of the period inextricable from the events of his own life at the time. A BOMC alternate
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John Updike, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (387p) ISBN 978-0-679-42221-1
This collection gathers more than 300 of Updike's poems, some written in his youth and others very recently. Admirers of his fiction know that verbal precision, edged with wit, is one of Updike's hallmarks, and readers will fall upon his light verse
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John Updike, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (371p) ISBN 978-0-679-41681-4
Irony, whimsy, supple prose, pungent imagery, penetrating social observation and a focus on his protagonist's libido are the familiar elements Updike brings to his 39th book (after Rabbit at Rest and Odd Jobs). But there is more: a biography/historic
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John Updike, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (427p) ISBN 978-0-449-21962-1
Harry ``Rabbit'' Angstrom, morbidly depressed, overweight and living with wife Janice in a Florida retirement community, recovers from a heart attack and is led astray by his libido one last time. ``Updike is razor-sharp and mordantly funny,'' said...
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John Updike, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-449-21821-1
``Updike's memoir--it is by no means an autobiography, but rather, as the title brilliantly suggests, a thoughtful communing with past selves--is, as expected, wonderfully written. It is also disarmingly frank about certain aspects of the writer's...
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John Updike, Author Alfred A. Knopf $17.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-394-55833-2
As the chronicler of a certain kind of upper middle-class, sophisticated culture, Updike has few peers. The 22 stories in his new collection cover familiar ground, but always with a resonance and relevance that deliver fresh shocks of recognition....
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John Updike, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (919p) ISBN 978-0-679-40414-9
An amazingly prolific man of letters, Updike serves up a feast in this massive compilation of essays, speeches, prefaces, a playlet and dozens of book reviews, the latter of which make up the bulk of the book. In conversational, urbane, witty prose...
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John Updike, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-40908-0
Precisely honed, buoyant with sly wit, masterful character analysis and astutely observed historical details, this tour de force by the protean Updike reimagines the circumstances leading to Shakepeare's Hamlet. To emphasize the ancient provenance...
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John Updike, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-41113-7
Harry ""Rabbit"" Angstrom has been dead for a decade in Rabbit Remembered, the novella that closes this latest, richly evocative Updike collection. His widow, Janice, is married to Ronnie Harrison, the widower of Thelma, with whom Harry had a long-ti
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $25 (97p) ISBN 978-0-307-27286-7
Many delights but very few surprises await Updike's admirers in this last book of poems from the prolific essayist and novelist, completed only weeks before his death. Much of it gathers calm, casual, loosely rhymed sonnets, first in...
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-41490-9
Couched in the form of a day-long conversation between 79-year–old painter Hope Chafetz, living in seclusion in Vermont, and a chic young interviewer from New York, Updike's 20th novel is an ambitious attempt to capture the moment when...
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4290-6
In this 21st novel by one of the premier chroniclers of American life, a man recalls a lifetime spent in New England communities of women. Owen Mackenzie, now in his 70s and living in the small village of Haskell's Crossing, Conn., with his...
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $25 (310p) ISBN 978-0-307-26465-7
Ripped from the headlines doesn't begin to describe Updike's latest, a by-the-numbers novelization of the last five years' news reports on the dangers of home-grown terror that packs a gut punch. Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy is 18 and attends...
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $23 (112p) ISBN 978-0-375-41254-7
Anyone who could still call a poem "Two Cunts in Paris" and expect people to laugh or get a touch of frisson is either a novelist or completely out of touch—or both. Checking in with a collection of 60-odd lyrics from the period...
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $40 (703p) ISBN 978-0-307-26640-8
Updike's latest is an endlessly welcoming series of essays—every nonfiction piece he has published in the past eight years—offering Updike's characteristically reasoned perspective on a familiar range of subjects, including Old
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-26960-7
Motivated by advancing age, loneliness, latent guilt and a sense of unfinished business, the erstwhile Witches of Eastwick return to their former Rhode Island coastal town in this tepid sequel to the 1984 novel. Alexandra, the fleshy Earth Mother;...
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John Updike, Author . Knopf $25 (292p) ISBN 978-0-307-27156-3
Two of the three posthumous Updike books publishing this year deal heavily with late-life laments.
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike
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Updike compresses the strata of a life in his delicately...
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John Updike, Author Ballantine Books $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-449-91269-0
PW praised this collection of essays and short fiction by the golfer--and novelist--as ""entertaining and meaningful."" (Sept.)
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John Updike, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $35 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-43071-1
Nothing Updike has written before prepares the reader for this book, a tale of doomed lovers with wry reference to the Tristan and Isolde legend. Black street kid Tristao Raposo, 19, first sees blonde, convent-educated Isabel Leme, 18, on a beach in
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John Updike, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-679-43583-9
As Updike himself edges into his 60s, so do the narrators and protagonists of most of these 22 beautifully crafted stories, all of them meticulously honest and gracefully ironic. ``In the winter of their lives,'' most of these aging men have been...
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John Updike, Author Knopf Publishing Group $27.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-394-55435-8
Sex and its combinations and permutations apart, two of Updike's commanding, long-standing intereststheology and various kinds of sciencecome together to form the matrix of his new novel. The conflicting ideas are as ancient as time: reason versus...
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John Updike, Author Knopf Publishing Group $35 (272p) ISBN 978-0-394-57222-2
Updike's memoirit is by no means an autobiography, but rather, as the title brilliantly suggests, a thoughtful communing with past selvesis, as expected, wonderfully written. It is also disarmingly frank about certain aspects of the writer's life....
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John Updike, Author Ballantine Books $15.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-449-91121-1
The spiritual and sexual malaise of a multigenerational American family is the focus of Updike's masterful novel, a six-week PW bestseller. (Jan.)
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John Updike, Author, David Updike, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-679-89009-6
D is for Dog, and the author of Rabbit, Run makes much of it: ""A dog is jumpier; its fur is clumpier... but rarely (compared to a cat) is it grumpier."" PW gave a starred review to these 26 short poems illustrated with photographs: ""This...
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John Updike, compiled and edited by Christopher Carduff. Knopf, $40 (528p) ISBN 978-0-307-95715-3
Carduff has finished the job Updike began before his 2009 death, assembling nearly 100 uncollected pieces by “the preeminent literary journalist of our times.” Predominantly comprising literary and art criticism from a range of magazines, the volume
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John Updike, edited by Christopher Carduff. Knopf, $45 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-95730-6
The previously uncollected art writings of the prolific and award-winning novelist and critic Updike, who died in 2009, are compiled in this handsome volume. The essays explore works by artists including Monet, Klimt, Degas, Miró, Magritte; the...
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John Updike, Author, Kate Reading, Read by , read by Kate Reading. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-7079-7
Three decades after the original release of Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
comes this follow-up featuring the same depressed, divorced and devilish ladies of the original. This time around the women are, naturally, widows who travel the...
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John Updike, Author, Christopher Lane, Read by , read by Christopher Lane. Brilliance Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1863-7
Updike's latest offers up a probing post-9/11 history lesson on America—its mythology and street realities, religious attitudes, and the myriad nationalities that have borne this country fruit. Lane has his work cut out, and for the most...
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John Updike, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Holiday House $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1445-1
letter day for poetry lovers. Each month receives its due in shiveringly lovely verse while Hyman's brightly populated watercolors trace the corresponding activities of a lively Vermont family. The interplay of text and art has both depth and beauty.
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John Updike, Author, Paul Szep, Illustrator Knopf Publishing Group $27.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-45058-0
In his preface to this volume of essays and short fiction, longtime golfer Updike speculates that his addiction to the sport has ""stolen my life away.'' But this collection of pieces written between 1959 and 1995 illustrates that, even if his swing
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John Updike, Author, Malcolm Bradbury, Introduction by Everyman's Library $23 (544p) ISBN 978-0-375-41176-2
Never as big as Rabbit, but a genial antihero in his own right, Henry Bech is John Updike's fictional alter ego, a Jewish writer with a weakness for women and literary awards. Now, three bestselling collections of Bech stories are gathered in one...
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John Updike, Author, Judith B. Jones, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-394-56835-5
The eponymous S. is Sarah Worth, Boston bred, upper-class WASP, and when we meet her in this epistolary narrative, she is on an airplane, writing to tell her doctor husband she is leaving him to join her guru on an Arizona religious commune. In a...
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John Updike, Author, David Updike, Photographer Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-679-84324-5
In addition to illustrious name of Updike, this extraordinary alphabet book offers numerous rewards-poems that are by turns thoughtful and lively; crisp photographs that seem both familiar and new; and a book design so fresh and appealing as to...
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Paul D. Staudohar, Editor, John Updike, Author, Don Marquis, With Chicago Review Press $24 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55652-321-2
John Updike, Paul Gallico, P.G. Wodehouse, Ethan Canin and Ring Lardner all contribute to this strong collection of 24 golfing yarns. Although Wodehouse, ""the bard of the links,"" sets the light tone (and the standard) for most of the collection...
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