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Music School
The Music School is a place of learning, in which a sheltered South Dakota boy meets his roommate at Harvard, a rebel with whom he will have a violent—and ambiguous—physical …
Rabbit Redux
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 …
John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA #311)
Library of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of John Updike's novels with the four early works that signaled the arrival of one of the most gifted young …
Gertrude and Claudius
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 …
Bech Is Back
In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He …
OF THE FARM
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 …
Due Considerations
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 …
Maples Stories
Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one …
Die Tränen meines Vaters
«Es ist leicht, Menschen in der Erinnerung zu lieben», schreibt John Updike, und genauso leicht, «die Toten falsch zu zitieren». Darum will er sie so zärtlich, aber auch so genau …