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Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
Following on from the acclaimed "Just Looking" and "Still Looking", "Always Looking" is an insightful collection of art criticism and a masterclass in appreciating art - from the great American man of letters, John Updike. "Always Looking" treats readers to a series of elegant and sensitive essays on ar ...Show more
Due Considerations : Essays and Criticism by John Updike
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
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 travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English ...Show more
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, "Endpoint", written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed ...Show more
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison, John le Carre and Ann Patchett and expert critique on exhibitions of El Greco, Van Gogh and Schiele ar ...Show more
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In 'Fiftieth' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, "What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now bei ...Show more
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It�s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He�s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That�s OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It�s all in place: he�s Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, i ...Show more
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics
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 simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under thr ...Show more
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
It's 1989, and Harry Rabbit Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son, Nelson, is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice ...Show more
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Self-Consciousness One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an Ame ...Show more
Terrorist by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
$13.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
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