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The Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels culminates with three masterful late works In one volume, brilliant explorations of the American Century and of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and a bittersweet coda to the Rabbit seriesThe capstone volume of the Library of America edition of John Updike's novels contains some of the master stylist and social observer's most ambitious works. In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910...

John Updike's provocative and absorbing 20th novel, like his first, "The Poorhouse Fair" (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much discussion and some rain.

John Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter for contemporary AmericaThe latest volume in Library of America's John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. Roger's Version (1986) stakes out ground that encompasses Updike's recurring themes of sex, desire, and adultery as well as an emerging interest in the cosm...

The third volume of Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels features the continuation of the renowned Rabbit saga and two wickedly funny satires set in the charged realms of sex, politics, and family.The third volume in our five-volume selected edition of the novels of John Updike includes three books: The Coup, one of Updike's most outlandish satires, set in a fictional African nation, Rabbit Is Rich, the third, and many s...

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John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair, the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest), Marry Me, The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film, Memories of the Ford Administration, Brazil, In the Beauty of the Lilies, Toward the End of Time, Gertrude and Claudius, and Seek My Face. He has written a number o...

Newly available in paperback, this 20th anniversary edition of a Caldecott Honor classic combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman.Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family and the turn of the seasons. From the short, frozen days of January, through the light of summer, to the first snowflakes of December, Updike's poems rejoices in the fam...

Library of America's definitive Updike edition continues with three masterful novels on the joys and the discontents of the sexual revolutionHere for the first time in one volume are three of John Updike's most essential novels--the scandalous Couples, the brilliant Rabbit Redux, and the uproarious A Month of Sundays--which together form an unforgettable triptych of the social turbulence that roiled America from the Kennedy to the Nixon years....

S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). "S." details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her...

Newly available in hardcover, this 20th anniversary edition of a Caldecott Honor classic combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman.Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family and the turn of the seasons. From the short, frozen days of January, through the light of summer, to the first snowflakes of December, Updike's poems rejoices in the fam...

Mit John Updike die Kunst neu entdecken! John Updike hat nicht nur fast 30 Romane geschrieben, sondern auch zahlreiche Essays, die von Kierkegaard, Hemingway, dem Golfspiel oder »Zehn einschneidenden Momenten in der Geschichte der amerikanischen Libido« handeln. Über mehrere Jahrzehnte verfasste er zudem für renommierte amerikanische Magazine wie The New Republic, The New Yorker oder The New York Review of Books Texte über Kunst, von denen nun...

La prima apparizione di Richard e Joan Maple risale a un racconto scritto da John Updike nel 1956. Il racconto si chiamava "Neve sul Greenwich Village", e i Maple - gli affascinanti coniugi protagonisti della storia - avevano appena traslocato a New York, in un appartamento sulla Tredicesima West. Da quel momento e per i vent'anni successivi, Updike non li ha più persi di vista, facendone corpi e sentimento di diciotto storie raccolte poco dop...

Tarbox, New England, anni Sessanta. Tra un doppio a tennis e un barbecue sul prato dei vicini, le coppie di questo libro discorrono della crisi di Cuba e dell'educazione dei figli, fumano troppe sigarette e bevono troppi drink, leggono Henry Miller e Sigmund Freud. Soprattutto, si tradiscono a vicenda, in una rete di intrighi e scambi di coppia che non risparmia nessuno. Janet e Frank sono felicemente sposati, ma vanno a letto altrettanto feli...

Now in paperback: five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems--written between 1953 and 2008--with the cumulative force of an autobiography in verse, by this master of American letters.Though John Updike is widely known as one of America's greatest writers of prose, both his first book and his last were poetry collections, and in the fifty years between he published six other volumes of verse. Here, Christopher Carduff has selected the b...

Library of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of John Updike's novels with the four early works that signaled the arrival of one of the most gifted young novelists of the 1960s.John Updike had already made a name as a contributor of stories and poems to The New Yorker when, in January 1959, at the age of twenty-six, he published his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, launching one of the most extraordinary literary careers in A...

Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal price.

Sono belle e pericolose, tutte e tre, divorziate, sono attorniate da uomini e da amanti, e, ovviamente, sono capaci di qualunque prodigio, perché sono tre streghe. Alexandra, Jane e Sukie vivono in una cittadina del New England, circondate dai pettegolezzi, ma non hanno nessuna voglia di nascondersi o di limitare il loro desiderio di avventura e trasgressione. Alexandra scolpisce piccole bambole, le sue "puppine", Jane suona il violoncello, Su...

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