Author: John Updike
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: calendar, child
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0823414450
ISBN-13: 9780823414451

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child’s life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: dreams, golf
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-09-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0449912698
ISBN-13: 9780449912690

How lucky can an editor be? When legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn wanted a writer to review a book on golf, he could turn to novelist John Updike. Updike, a devoted golfer, was delighted to take on the assignment. That review of Michael Murphy’s Golf In the Kingdom is contained -- along with essays from Golf Digest, The New York Times Book Review and other publications -- in Golf Dreams. Rounding out the collection of 30 pieces are excerpts from Updike’s classic fiction, including Three Rounds With Rabbit Angstrom.ies in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces,

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: couples
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-08-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 044991190X
ISBN-13: 9780449911907

Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late 20th century. A classic, it is one of those books that will be read--and remembered--for a long time to come.

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: stories, tears, father
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-05-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0345513800
ISBN-13: 9780345513809

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: century, stories, short, american
Number of Pages: 864
Published: 2000-04-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0395843677
ISBN-13: 9780395843673

Since the series’ inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories that represent a century’s worth of unsurpassed achievements in this quintessentially American literary genre. This expanded edition includes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 to round out th

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: stories, tears, father
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0307271560
ISBN-13: 9780307271563

John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.“Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of t

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Keywords: consciousness
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1989-03-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 039457222X
ISBN-13: 9780394572222

The author has condensed his memoirs into six chapters concerning, his psoriasis, his stuttering, the Vietnam War, his ancestors, religion and his sense of self. His books include "Rabbit is Rich", the 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner and "The Witches of Eastwick" which was made into a feature film.