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0BIBLIOGRAPHY of John Updike
 | Ambrose Bierce's Parker Adderson, philosopher recommended: 0 times published at: [1986], c1974 |
| Due considerations : essays and criticism recommended: 0 times published at: 2007 Synopsis: Product Description John Updike’s sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading “ General Considerations,” books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more... read more | |
 | Updike in Cincinnati : a literary performance recommended: 0 times published at: 2007 Synopsis: Introduction : The writer in public -- Letter to be included as an afterword to the introduction / John Updike -- Zimmer Auditorium reading -- Elliston Room panel : Updike, his critics, and his short fiction -- A conversation at the College Conservatory of Music -- Mercantile Library Reading.---Product Description “I had a great time in Cincinnati; but why is there no shrine to Doris Day?” —John... read more |
 | Terrorist recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: Product Description 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. The son of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when... read more |
| Rabbit (un)redeemed : the drama of belief in John Updike's fiction recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: The truth that shall make you free -- Where only a scribble exists : the David Kern stories -- Upward space : Rabbit, run -- Desolate openness : Rabbit redux -- Domestic peace : Rabbit is rich -- Nothing is sacred : Rabbit at rest -- Room for belief : in the beauty of the lilies -- A contentious spirit : "Rabbit remembered".---Product Description This book approaches Updike's oeuvre by illuminating... read more | |
| Terrorist [a novel] recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 |
| The witches of Eastwick recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 |
| Still looking : essays on American art recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: The American face -- Nature his only instructor -- "O beautiful for spacious skies" -- Heade storms -- Epic Homer -- The ache in Eakins -- Whistler in the dark -- "Better than nature" -- Walls that talk too much -- Street Arab -- Evangel of the lens -- "A lone left thing" -- O pioneer! -- Logic is beautiful -- Hopper's polluted silence -- Early Sunday morning -- Jackson whole -- Iconic Andy.---Product... read more | |
| John Updike : the critical responses to the "Rabbit" saga recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: Rabbit, run -- Rabbit redux -- Rabbit is rich -- Rabbit at rest -- Rabbit Angstrom -- "Rabbit remembered."---Product Description Twenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the "Rabbit" Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays. There is dual purpose of this collection of critical responses: first, to provide a historical view of the critical reception of all of Updike's... read more | |
| Book one : work, 1986-2006 : album/ recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: Product Description Described as "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today), Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd's iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.Chip Kidd:... read more | |
| John Updike's human comedy : comic morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit novels recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: The comic paragon and the meticulous man in The Centaur -- The comic hero's place in the generations in Rabbit, Run -- The comic hero's renewal in the Rabbit Rudux -- The role of comedy in dispelling illusion in Rabbin is Rich -- The comic hero accepts his mortality in Rabbit at Rest -- Nelson Redux in "Rabbit Remembered".---Product Description The comedy in John Updike's most important works-- The... read more | |
| Villages recommended: 0 times published at: 2004 Synopsis: Dream on, Dear Owen -- Village sex--I -- The husband -- Village sex--II -- How Phyllis was won -- Village sex--III -- On the way to Middle Falls -- Village sex--IV -- Convalescence -- Village sex--V -- Developments in hardware -- Village sex--VI -- You don't want to know -- Village wisdom.---Product Description John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from... read more | |
![Selected shorts. [a celebration of the short story].](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0971921822.01.THUMB "Selected shorts. [a celebration of the short story].") | Selected shorts. [a celebration of the short story]. recommended: 0 times published at: 2004 Synopsis: Disc 1: Subsoil / Nicholson Baker -- Farrell's caddy / John Updike -- Disc 2: Jamaica / David Schickler -- Chivalry / Neil Gaiman -- Disc 3. Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels -- On the U.S.S. Fortitude / Ron Carlson -- Fatso / Etgar Keret.---Product Description This three-CD collection features more best-loved selections from National Public Radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series... read more |
 | The early stories, 1953-1975 recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: You'll never know, dear, how much I love you -- The alligators -- Pigeon feathers -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A sense of shelter -- Flight -- The happiest I've been -- The persistence of desire -- The blessed man of Boston, my grandmother's thimble, and Fanning Island -- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car -- In football season -- The lucid eye in Silver Town -- The kid's whistling... read more |
| The rabbit novels recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: v. 1. Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux -- v. 2. Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest.---Product Description The third and fourth novel in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT IS RICH Winner of the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award “Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike’s place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very... read more | |
| Big dead white male : Ralph Waldo Emerson turns two hundred recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 |
| Rabbit remembered recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 |
| The roommate recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 |
| Seek my face recommended: 0 times published at: 2002 Synopsis: Product Description John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates,... read more | |
 | The complete Henry Bech : twenty stories recommended: 0 times published at: 2001 Synopsis: Bech : a book -- Bech is back -- Bech at bay -- His oeuvre.... read more |
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