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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 …

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She’s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he’s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who’s been sleeping …

"A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control."--Kansas City Star Rabbit, Run is the book …

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden …

William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. …

As a present to John Updike on his fiftieth birthday, and as a treat for his readers, his first book, a collection of light verse originally published twenty-five years ago, is …

Set in the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, "Dream of Venus (or Living Pictures)", is a speculative history reanimating the last great international fair this world would ever …

The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and …

Schon als 22jähriger Student hat Updike erzählerische Meisterschaft bewiesen: 1954 erschien in The New Yorker seine erste Erzählung über die Bewohner des ländlichen Olinger, das …

“The Maples stories trace the decline and fall of a marriage,” writes the author in his Foreword, a marriage that is threatened early on by the temptations of infidelity (“Snowing …

A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and …

?Ein boshaftes und dennoch liebevolles Porträt einer trügerischen Kleinstadtidylle.? (Der Spiegel) In dem kleinen Ort Eastwick in Rhode Island leben drei Frauen, die …