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Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
$65.00 NZD
Category: General
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
Due Considerations : Essays and Criticism by John Updike
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
$35.00 NZD
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
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"Higher Gossip" presents John Updike's last collection of essays, poems and short stories. 'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip. Influential reviews of Toni Morrison, John le Car ...Show more
Marry Me by John Updike
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard!
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
Seek My Face by John Updike
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
The Early Stories 1853-1975 by John Updike
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Beginning in childhood, moving on to marriage, and culminating in the bitter aftermath of the swinging sixties,The Early Stories read like an emotional diary of Updike's generation. Finishing this volume a reader has the impression that Updike is...akin to Coleridge and Shelley, with a American twist." ...Show more
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