Of the Farm (Updike John)(Paperback)

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

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

Villages (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

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

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

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Updike John)(Paperback)

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

In the Beauty of the Lilies (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

Taking its title from the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', this work traces one family's profound journey through four generations - and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century

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

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

Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

Mark Twain's gloriously funny Diary of Adam and Eve, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes, is presented here with a number of other Twain pieces on our two oldest ancestors, showing the writer's interest in this most famous episode of the Bible. By giving a voice

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

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

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

'Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.' -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew

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

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

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

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

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

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

Animal Farm (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight the weakness of humankind, and satirize the rule of Stalin, whose rise through revolution ended in

Rabbit is Rich (Updike John)(Paperback / softback)

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. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned

The Lactose-Free Cookbook (Updike Sheri)(Paperback)

The first major lactose-free cookbook for millions of people worldwide who are lactose

Sussex Downs Murder (Bude John)(Paperback / softback)

Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister