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Always Looking
In this posthumous collection of John Updike’s art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to …
Gertrude und Claudius
Die Vorgeschichte zu Shakespeares Hamlet: Gertrude, Tochter König Roriks, will den Mann nicht heiraten, den ihr Vater für sie ausgesucht hat. Doch die Staatsräson siegt. Der …
Poorhouse Fair
“Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.”—The …
Licks of Love
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 …
Golf Dreams
'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 …
The Poorhouse Fair
At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce on …
Winesburg, Ohio
Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction--evoking with lyrical …
Rabbit, Run
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 …
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams
On September 28, 1960—a day that will live forever in the hearts of fans—Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park. Seizing the …
More Matter
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 …
Toward The End Of Time
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 …