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Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
65.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
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
Complete Henry Bech - B Fmt by John Updike
25.00 NZD
Category: General 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.
Due Considerations : Essays and Criticism by John Updike
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
29.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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 talent ...Show more
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A beautiful, moving collection of short stories, in many of which Updike revisits the haunts of his childhood from the vantage point of old age. In 'Fiftieth' old friends reconnect at a class reunion, and one of them is left wondering, "What does it mean: the enormity of having been children and now bei ...Show more
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 club, i ...Show more
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
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 under thr ...Show more
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 - stuc ...Show more
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
12.99 NZD
15.99 (18% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Rabbit, Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike. The novel depicts three months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who is trapped in a loveless marriage and a boring sales job, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life.
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
26.00 NZD
27.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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, is giving him cause for concern. His son, Nelson, is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice ...Show more
Rich in Russia by John Updike
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life - impoverished yet ceremonial, shabby yet ornate, sentimental, embattled, and avuncular-reminiscent of his neglected Jewish past.' In these two sho ...Show more
Seek My Face by John Updike
24.00 NZD
28.00 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who defined their times. As the day w ...Show more