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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2010
165 kr
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John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation.'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a …
Haren springer
Av John Updike
Inbunden, 2016
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
207 kr
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Ständigt återupptäckt sextiotalsklassiker *Inkluderad i Time Magazines lista över: »De 100 bästa engelskspråkiga romanerna«.* »Så tät skriven och en ren uppvisning i metaforer. Läsandet blir som att gnaga på ett revbensspjäll.« | JAN GRADVALL, DAGENS INDUSTRI Harry Angstrom var basketesset i High …
Terrorist
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2007
152 kr
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In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues – the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the …
Rabbit, Run
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2006
149 kr
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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 - …
Golf Dreams
Av John Updike
Häftad, 1998
203 kr
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As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle to the camaraderie of good golf and its own attendant perils.
Rabbit is Rich
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2006
179 kr
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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 …
Rabbit Redux
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2006
179 kr
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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 …
Rabbit at Rest
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2006
179 kr
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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, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. …
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2001
296 kr
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Gertrude And Claudius
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2001
179 kr
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Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. As only he …
Licks of Love
Short Stories And a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered'
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2002
190 kr
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Collected with a dozen wonderful stories, all set in classic Updike territory, the short novel 'RABBIT REMEMBERED' is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike's most celebrated fictional world. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, …
Complete Henry Bech
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2006
179 kr
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Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Updike's greatest creations, are described in hilarious detail, as he travels the world struggling to …
Widows of Eastwick
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2009
152 kr
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When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years …
Witches of Eastwick
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2007
152 kr
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The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, …
Maples Stories
Inbunden, 2009
179 kr
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In 1956 John Updike wrote a short story about newly-weds Joan and Richard Maple. Over the next two decades he returned to this couple again and again, tracking their years together as they raise children and deal with the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Gathered here for the first time …
Fun of It
Stories from The Talk of the Town
Av John Updike, James Thurber m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
208 kr
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William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn''t until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism …
John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2004
361 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Ace in the Hole
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
99 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Bulgarian Poetess
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
129 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Family Meadow
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
50 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Gesturing
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
131 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Killing
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
97 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Lifeguard
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
99 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Man Who Loved Extinct Mammals
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
99 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Orphaned Swimming Pool
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
50 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Persistence of Desire
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
99 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Snowing in Greenwich Village
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
99 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
Your Lover Just Called
A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection
Av John Updike
Ljudbok, 2009
99 kr
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and …
More Matter
Essays And Criticism
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2014
239 kr
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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. …
Early Stories
1953-1975
Av John Updike
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. There follows tales of life away from home, student days, …
