UPDIKE JOHN

OF THE FARM

(P/B) HUGGING THE SHORE

THREE TRIPS

(P/B) THE AFTERLIFE

BASIC BECH

(P/B) MEMORIES OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION
When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) RABBIT OMNIBUS

(P/B) TOWARD THE END OF TIME

(P/B) TRUST ME

(P/B) SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
The author has condensed his memoirs into six chapters concerning, his psoriasis, his stuttering, the Vietnam War, his ancestors, religion and his sense of self. His books include "Rabbit is Rich", the 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner and "The Witches of Eastwick" which was made into a feature film. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) COLLECTED POEMS

(P/B) AMERICANA

(P/B) FORTY STORIES

(P/B) YOUR LOVER JUST CALLED

(P/B) BECH AT BAY
Bech is back in fine, fierce form in this quasi-novel, the third of Updike's books about the peripatetic Jewish-American author forever embattled by his literary peers, critics, and not a few women. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) GERTRUDE AND CLAUDIUS
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 could, Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a backgrou...
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