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Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
Category: Art
In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) in which “the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a d ...Show more
Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
Category: Art and Design
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
Brazil by John Updike
Category: Fiction
Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild wes ...Show more
Complete Henry Bech - B Fmt by John Updike
Category: Fiction
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what happens when a writer becomes a literary celebrity.
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pa ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pas ...Show more
Couples by John Updike
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England.
Due Considerations by John Updike
Category: Biography Memoir
This new 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 Engl ...Show more
Due Considerations : Essays and Criticism by John Updike
Category: Languages and Reference
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
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
Category: Fiction
This new 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 Engl ...Show more
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
Category: Poetry
"Endpoint" opens with a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of Updike's recent birthdays and culminate in his confrontation with his final illness. They look back on the boy that Updike once was, on his family and little town and the circumstances that fed his love of writing. ...Show more