BOOKS by John Updike

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1	The Witches of Eastwick more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Home, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital more books like this by Samuel Shem, M.D., John Updike (Introduction by) add to wishlist This classic novel, first published in 1978, tells the story of an intern at a frantically busy urban hospital, and contains an introduction by John Updike. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.31!
3	Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies more books like this by Charles Lindsay, John Updike (Foreword by) add to wishlist Charles Lindsay's photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards of lost golf balls - rough, woods, bunkers and wetlands - as well as unexpected encounters with wildlife on and off the green. An avid golfer, he photographs his way to the heart of the matter with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process he ... see all copies from £14.43! new only from £14.43! \| first editions
4	Age of Innocence more books like this by Edith Wharton add to wishlist THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is Edith Wharton's insider's look at New York society at a time when an address above 12th Street was considered the wild frontier. May Welland, demure and pretty, is born and bred to marry Newland Archer, a thoughtful barrister. He in turn loves the brazen, unconventional, and attractive Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	In the beauty of the lilies more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation, Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman. What follows is the saga of the Wilmot family, one wandering tapestry thread within the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Widows of Eastwick more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist In this delightfully ominous sequel to "The Witches of Eastwick," Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie are now widowed and have returned to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they must cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds. see all copies from £1.66! new only from £3.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Self-Consciousness more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updike's autobiography takes the form of six related personal essays, each written with extraordinary honesty and self-effacing humor. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £16.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Rabbit Run more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist John Updike's highly acclaimed saga of desire and regret, first published in 1959, introduces Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a typical Middle American--small-town Protestant, former basketball star, married man intent on making a name for himself in the community--whose life begins to unravel when he falls in love and deserts his wife. Caught between ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Terrorist more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Born of an Irish-American mother and an Egyptian father long since disappeared, 18-year-old Ahmad craves spiritual nurture and is drawn into an insidious plot. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Best American Short Stories of the Century more books like this by John Updike (Editor) add to wishlist Including one new story and an Index by author of every story that has ever appeared in the series, this new volume offers a "spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" ("Entertainment Weekly"). see all copies from £4.13! new only from £4.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Trust Me more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Twenty-two of Updike's best short stories, many of them about the issue of trust--trust that is betrayed as well as trust that is, painfully, fulfilled. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Rabbit is Rich more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors, but his life is not without problems, including the return of his recalcitrant son Nelson, the return of an old ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Rabbit Redux more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist In RABBIT REDUX (1971), John Updike's poignant sequel to RABBIT, RUN, he explores the tumultuous transformations of the late '60s as they affect the traditional American values on which Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom--like so many other Americans--believes his life is based. Rabbit trusts the government, supports the Vietnam War, finds blacks ("Negroes") ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £6.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Pigeon Feathers more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Wonderful, poetic early stories, many about adolescence and youth, including the classic and much-anthologized "A&P." see all copies from £4.95! new only from £9.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Poorhouse Fair more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updike's first novel describes the annual fair staged by the elderly inhabitants of a New Jersey poorhouse. Although everything proceeds along traditional and unremarkable lines for most of the afternoon, a protest suddenly breaks out and threatens to overwhelm the young director of the home. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Rabbit at Rest more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updike's fourth "Rabbit" novel presents the human condition as personified by Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The fat, aging, ill Rabbit must also cope with his son's drug addiction, his wife's troubles, a former girlfriend who turns up suffering from lupus, and the world in general, with which Rabbit has always had a love-hate relationship. In this last ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist When we first met him in "Rabbit, Run" (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display ... see all copies from £12.95! new only from £12.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Golf Dreams more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist The 47th book by John Updike is a collection of short pieces on a classic game. A golfer for almost 40 years, Updike has written frequently about his "impassioned but imperfect devotion" to the game. Now he brings together his writings culled from a variety of sources--The New Yorker, Golf Digest, his own fiction--that knowingly cover everything ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Early Stories: 1953-1975 more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist These 103 stories represent almost every one that John Updike wrote during the first half of his literary career--from 1953 to 1975. They are arranged chronologically--not by when they were written, but by the age of his protagonists: awkward adolescents to disaffected middle-aged suburbanites. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. see all copies from £8.16! new only from £11.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Couples more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist They are sociable, articulate and unhappy; they enjoy sailing, basketball and skiing; they play word games in the evenings and adultery all the year round. Slipping in and out of affairs, they and their rituals are observed by the baleful eye of their self-appointed ringmaster, Freddy Thorne. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading General Considerations, books, poker, cars, and the American libido. see all copies from £7.94! new only from £9.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Endpoint and Other Poems more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book. The opening sequence, "Endpoint,"" "is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness ... see all copies from £10.84! new only from £10.84! \| first editions
23 view cover	Lectures on Literature more books like this by Vladimir Nabokov add to wishlist For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers; Introduction by John Updike; illustrations. see all copies from £2.52! new only from £2.52! \| first editions
24 view cover	The centaur more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist The 47th book by John Updike is a collection of short pieces on a classic game. A golfer for almost 40 years, Updike has written frequently about his "impassioned but imperfect devotion" to the game. Now he brings together his writings culled from a variety of sources--The New Yorker, Golf Digest, his own fiction--that knowingly cover everything ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £14.98! \| signed copies \| first editions

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