Books written by John Updike

The Writer's Desk: Jill Krementz 2006 Calendar

The Writer's Desk: Jill Krementz 2006 Calendar
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

Both translations can be usefully compared with that of Everett Fox, also titled The Five Books of .W0.\"e.r and published in 1995. Alter cites Fox as the outstanding exception to the general trend of a blandly readable English Bible—an ...
Still looking [electronic resource]: essays on American art

... 137 Street in Sterzing, Tyrol, A, 136, 137 Winter-Fifth Avenue, 137-8, 138 Still, Clifford, 167 Strand, Mark, 182-3 Strand, ... 83,84 Harmony in Green and Rose: The Music Room, 90 Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander, ...
The Best American Short Stories 1981

... Mavis Gallant, Elizabeth Hardwick, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joseph MacElroy, Elizabeth MacGrath, Amelia Moseley, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Louis D.. ... Huang cabled his government in code , “ H Bomb Only Hope .
Rabbit at Rest

Nelson was only twelve, he'd come over on his bicycle all the way into Eisenhower Avenue and he'd stand there for an hour across the street, looking up at our windows, and a couple of times I saw him and I hid, I hid behind the curtain ...
Rabbit Redux

To show Nelson how tough he is, Rabbit tells Skeeter, “This is all bleeding-heart stuff. It'd be like me bellyaching that the Swedes were pushed around by the Finns in the year Zilch.” Nelson cries, “We're missing Laugh-In.” They turn ...
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

My grandfather Hartley, born in 1860, was a bookish shy boy who was always in the hay mow reading. He attended the Pennington Seminary and upon graduation in 1879 gave an oration called “Moral Courage.” He then went to Princeton and ...
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six.
More Matter: Essays and Criticism

... Updike plays a peripheral part in Babbitt-Horace Updike, “Zenith's professional bachelor,” a suave, slender man Babbitt's exact age of forty—six—and two of Lewis's few close friends in young manhood were named Upson and Updegraff.
In the Beauty of the Lilies

This is the Updike of the Rabbit books, who can take you uphill and down with his grace of vision, his gossamer language, and his merciful, ironic glance "IT WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED AND BREATHLESS. . .
In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel

slender young seminarian many a headachy midnight back in Alexander Hall. In those student days, hungry for knowledge and fearless in his youthful sense of God's protection close at hand, he had plunged into the chilly Baltic sea of ...
Brazil

Trista+a1o, an African-Brazilian street kid, and Isabel, an upper-class teen fresh from convent school, fall in love and flee from her rich father and the toughs he has sent in pursuit of them. Simultaneous.
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

A masterful new collection of nonfiction writings by the acclaimed novelist and critic features charming essays on travel, faith, and literature, as he pays tribute to William Shawn, William Maxwell, James Thurber, and E. B. White; examines ...
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism

Wilbur Swain's nearest neighbor, Vera Chipmunk-5 Zappa, arrives at his hundred-and-first birthday party encrusted with diamonds, in a sedan chair. “She had a collection of precious stones which would have been worth ...
Always Looking: Essays on Art

Inlate1866,Homer andBenson sailed for Europe, and Homer spent nearly all of 1867in or near Paris; it has been said, ina toneof complaint, thatHomer paid insufficient attentiontothe newest French art,and returned with nosign of French ...
The Witches of Eastwick

Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie ply their individual witcheries in contemporary Eastwick, Rhode Island, and are themselves bewitched by a dark, wealthy, decadent stranger
兔子富了

本书故事发生在1976年6月最后一个星期六至1980年元月,讲述主人公哈里因继承岳父财产而步入中产阶级后的生活,他富了,也自觉老境将至,他需要安稳,也需要刺激 ...
兔子富了

兔子富了
The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town

Take this package of chocolade hagel. Everybody in Holland has this in the house. Put it on the children's breakfast, the way we do in Holland. It makes them eat." “Chocolate sprinkles?" we asked. "On bacon? On eggs?" "On anything.
兔子歇了

约翰·厄普代克是美国现实主义文学大师,他的“兔子四部曲”是当之无愧的经典巨作,本书是其中的一本。《兔子歇了》的故事发生在1988年圣诞节后的第一个星期二至1989年。主人公哈 ...