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Updike, John Bech: a book
Knopf 1970 Paperback Good
Front cover is hanging off, o/w internally all pages intact and clean. In BECH: A BOOK, John Updike delineates a famous writer who, at early middl e-age, has published his best work and now watches helplessly as "his reput ation grows while his powers decline." Bech's final cross, if we may, is his induction into the National Academy of Arts and Letters...a reminder that when we start collecting honors, our most productive work, whether personal or corporate, is usually wrapped in the folds of an unkind history.
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Updike, John Brazil
NY 1994 0-14-023654-6 / 9780140236545 Paperback Very Good
The "magical" story of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan a Copanabana black beach boy, Isolde a pampered white bimbo of the Brazillian bourgeoisie, they cha nge colour, though not sex). By the author of "Couples".
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Updike, John Gertrude and Claudius
Penguin Books Ltd 31 May 2001 0-14-100123-2 / 9780141001234 Paperback Very Good+
Using details from the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspirati on for "Hamlet", this tale brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daught er of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King, and he r middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother.
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Updike, John Marry Me
Knopf October 12, 197 0-394-40856-X / 9780394408569 1st Edition Hardcover VG+/VG+
A highly collectible first trade edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act like that any more," centers on the love affair of a married couple in the Connecticut of 1962. Unfortunately, this is a couple whose members are married to other people. Suburban infidelity is familiar territory by now, but nobody knows it as well as Updike, and the book is written with the author's characteristic poetic sensibility and sly wit.
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1000.00 JPY
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Updike, John Marry Me
Penguin Books Ltd December 2, 199 0-14-004643-7 / 9780140046434 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout. Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act like that any more," centers on the love affair of a married couple in the Connecticut of 1962. Unfortunately, this is a couple whose members are married to other people. Suburban infidelity is familiar territory by now, but nobody knows it as well as Updike, and the book is written with the author's characteristic poetic sensibility and sly wit.
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400.00 JPY
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Updike, John Memories Of The Ford Administration
Penguin Books 1992 0-14-017875-9 / 9780140178753 Paperback Very Good+
Alfred Clayton, the historian who narrates this book, remembers the period of Gerald Ford's presidency, a time of loose morals, the zenith of the deca dence of the sexual liberation of the 1960s. During that time Clayton leave s his family for what seems like a gratifying sexual partner.
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Updike, John Memories of the Ford Administration
Fawcett October 4, 1993 0-449-22188-1 / 9780449221884 Paperback Very Good+
Obstensibly preparing a paper on the Ford administration, Updike's narrator Alfred Clayton, a professor at a New Hampshire junior college, finds his i mpressions of the period inextricable from the events of his own life at th e time.
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Updike, John Of the Farm
Ballantine Books 2004 0-345-46822-8 / 9780345468222 Paperback Very Good+
"Updike is a master of sheer elegance of form that shows itself time and ag ain." -Los Angeles Times "Updike just happens to write the most vivid prose in America." -Vanity Fair
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Updike, John Rabbit at Rest: A Novel
Ballantine Books August 27, 1996 0-449-91194-2 / 9780449911945 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, morbidly depressed, overweight and living with wife Janice in a Florida retirement community, recovers from a heart attack and is led astray by his libido one last time. "Updike is razor-sharp and mordantly funny," said PW. "If this novel is in some respects an elegy to Rabbit's bewildered existence, it is also a poignant, humorous, instructive guidebook to the aborted American dream." The book took a Pulitzer Prize.
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Updike, John S
Fawcett August 29, 1989 0-449-21652-7 / 9780449216521 Paperback Near Fine
The eponymous S. is Sarah Worth, Boston bred, upper-class WASP, and when we meet her in this epistolary narrative, she is on an airplane, writing to t ell her doctor husband she is leaving him to join her guru on an Arizona re ligious commune. In a whimsical twist, Updike makes Sarah a Hawthornian cou nterpart to Roger in Roger's Version: one of her ancestors was a Prynne; he r daughter's name is Pearl. Through letters to members of her family, her h airdresser and dentist, and through tapes sent to her best friend Midge, Sa rah relates the circumstances that prompted her to leave domineering, phila ndering Charles and to seek communion with the Arhat and his band of sannya sins (pilgrims) on the ashram. Willfully blind to the totalitarian methods of the Arhat's flunkies, Sarah reports her spiritual rebirth at the same ti me she records abysmal living conditions and brutal physical and financial exploitation. She mimes the Arhat's preachy nonsense that frees her ego for "nothingness" and her body for love affairs both heterosexual and lesbian. Eventually she is "chosen" by the Arhat himself; bitter disillusionment fo llows. Like all of Updike's work, the narrative is a commentary on our cult ure. Sometimes bordering on farce, it is often wickedly funny, especially w hen Sarah employs her sharp tongue to lecture her mother and daughter or wr ite mendacious letters to the desperate people the Arhat has cheated. Updik e is in his most playful mode here; and if Sarah is too much of a ninny to elicit the reader's sympathy, she is a wonderful embodiment of self-delusio n and feminism run amok.
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Updike, John Toward the End of Time
Random House Publishing Grou April 1998 0-449-00305-1 / 9780449003053 Paperback Very Good
One of the several new and exciting paths Updike takes in this magnificent novel is its futuristic setting: the year 2020, after the Sino-American Con flict has destroyed the government, rendered the Great Plains a radioactive dustbowl and left the management of local affairs to thugs who demand prot ection money. Yet so subtly is this information introduced into the narrati ve that what remains paramount is not what has changed in this dangerous ne w world (although Updike imagines its particulars with brilliant specificit y) but what has remained the same: the edgy relationship between the sexes, the wax and wane of the seasons, the pull of love and guilt between genera tions.
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Updike, John Trust Me
Fawcett May 12, 1988 0-449-21498-2 / 9780449214985 Paperback Very Good+
As the chronicler of a certain kind of upper middle-class, sophisticated cu lture, Updike has few peers. The 22 stories in his new collection cover fam iliar ground, but always with a resonance and relevance that deliver fresh shocks of recognition. In Updike's world, fractured marriages are a conditi on of modern life. Ex-mates, new mates or lovers multiply in complex arrang ements, "victims of middle aged recklessness." Adultery is not defended or explained; it is inevitable and routine. The children of these many-bedded partners pay the price for their parents' un- and re-coupling. A tone of no stalgia, loss and pain is pervasive; retribution is sure to be exacted. As Updike ages, so do some of his characters, men who in their 50s or 60s, who , like the protagonists of The Wallet and Death of Distant Friends contempl ate "the premonition of extinction." In all of the narratives, Updike's ins pired gift for imagery is employed to stunning effect. One responds to thes e stories with a visceral feeling of empathy, of having been exposed to the essence of life seen through a master's eye.
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