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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
Couples by John Updike
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England.
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'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
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"Higher Gossip" presents John Updike's last collection of essays, poems and short stories. '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 Car ...Show more
John Updike: The Collected Stories by John Updike
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Category: Fiction
From his first collection, "The Same Door," released in 1959, to his last, "My Father's Tears," published fifty years later, John Updike was America's reigning master of the short story, "our second Hawthorne," as Philip Roth described him. His evocations of small-town Pennsylvania life, and of his own ...Show more
More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 discussion on contemporary art, issues and people, told from the inimitable perspective of Pulitzer prizewinner John Updike. Wide ra ...Show more
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
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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
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Category: Fiction
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
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
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, Run by John Updike
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The first book in his award-winning "Rabbit" series, John Updike's "Rabbit, Run" contains an afterword by the author in "Penguin Modern Classics". It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuc ...Show more
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
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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
Rich in Russia by John Updike
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Category: Fiction
'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 ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his neglected Jewish past.' In these two sho ...Show more