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Seek My Face by John Updike
54.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 q ...Show more
Terrorist by John Updike
28.00 NZD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: good
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. ...Show more
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows. The cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China a ...Show more
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 before h ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
12.99 NZD
13.99 (7% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
Three Trips by John Updike
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Nobody has done more to chart American life through fiction over the last half-century than John Updike, and he is as much a master of the short story as of the novel as this collection proves.
Villages by John Updike
27.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
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, b ...Show more