Brazílie - John Updike

Brazílie - John Updike

Vzrušující román amerického hvězdného spisovatele Johna Updika přináší velký milostný příběh s mnoha prvky magického realismu. Jde o moderní převyprávění legendárního eposu o Tristanovi a Isoldě. Setkávají se náhodně na pláži Copacabana. Tristao, černý kluk ze slumu

Villages (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Witches of Eastwick (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Month of Sundays (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in

Olinger Stories (Updike John)(Pevná vazba)

In an interview, Updike once said, 'If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories.' They follow the life of one character from the age of ten through manhood, in the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger (pronounced, according to Updike, with a long O and a hard G), which

Převrat - John Updike

Paměti fanatického diktátora smyšlené země v subsaharské Africe, jehož tepou všechny čtyři manželky i milenka, českým čtenářům připomenou, proč americký spisovatel John Updike hned dvakrát získal Pulitzerovu cenu. Kniha dosvědčuje, že základem dobrého humoru je schopnost

My Father's Tears and Other Stories (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of stories from the author's final

Čarodějky z Eastwicku - John Updike - audiokniha

Audiokniha: „Tři čarodějnice seděly tiše a uvědomovaly si, že jsou očarovány někým mocnějším…“ K uzoufání pokrytecké maloměsto Eastwick v americkém státečku Rhode Island nabízí trojici bájných čarodějnic jako z Macbetha přímo ideální rejdiště. Povětrnice

Čarodějky z Eastwicku - John Updike - audiokniha

Audiokniha: „Tři čarodějnice seděly tiše a uvědomovaly si, že jsou očarovány někým mocnějším…“ K uzoufání pokrytecké maloměsto Eastwick v americkém státečku Rhode Island nabízí trojici bájných čarodějnic jako z Macbetha přímo ideální rejdiště. Povětrnice

Couples (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year

Maples Stories (Updike John)(Pevná vazba)

Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments

Rabbit at Rest (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom 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 is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life

Complete Henry Bech (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

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

A Child's Calendar (20th Anniversary Edition) (Updike John)(Paperback)

Newly available in paperback, this 20th anniversary edition of a Caldecott Honor classic combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman. Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family and the turn of the

Widows of Eastwick (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years

U & I - A True Story (Baker Nicholson)(Paperback / softback)

Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta

Rabbit, Run (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

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 - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile

Brazil (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's

Terrorist (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our

Marry Me (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Sally is big and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard ...As a hot, feverish summer of weekends, secret phone calls and lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out

Of the Farm (Updike John)(Paperback)

In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making

Adversary - A True Story of Monstrous Deception (Carrere Emmanuel)(Paperback / softback)

Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrere, whose fiction John Updike described as 'stunning' (New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can

Poorhouse Fair (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly residents take pride in the self-respect they gain from this one day. But when the fair goes less well than the folks had hoped, they blame Conner, the new prefect of the home

Rabbit Redux (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused life comes Jill, a runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the