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Rabbit Redux

John Updike
Rabbit Redux Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307744081

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In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.

Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UCSC:32106017366946

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Rabbit is rich ; Rabbit at rest by John Updike Pdf

The third and fourth novel in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT IS RICH Winner of the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award “Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike’s place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasure of the Middle-American male.” –Vogue “A splendid achievement!” –The New York Times RABBIT AT REST Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.” –The Washington Post Book World “Powerful . . . John Updike with his precision’s prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master.” –The New York Times Book Review

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307744104

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Rabbit at Rest by John Updike Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live. “Brilliant . . . the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.

Rabbit Is Rich

John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307744098

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Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last—until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit’s middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.

Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux

John Updike
Rabbit run Rabbit redux Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058085278

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Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux by John Updike Pdf

"The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume. " RABBIT, RUN "Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own." -"The Washington Post ""Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings." -"The Village Voice " RABBIT REDUX " 'Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling-a great and beautiful thing . . .' these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike's "Rabbit Redux." -The New York Times Book Review" " ""Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece." -"Time"

Shiloh and Other Stories

Bobbie Ann Mason
Shiloh and Other Stories Book PDF

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307806321

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Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games. "Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books.

Licks of Love

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307415844

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Licks of Love by John Updike Pdf

In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harry’s survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updike’s fictional world go round—married love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.

The Centaur

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645870

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The Centaur by John Updike Pdf

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author’s remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron’s agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is “a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son.”

A Rabbit Omnibus

John Updike
A Rabbit Omnibus Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 014015809X

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A Rabbit Omnibus by John Updike Pdf

The trilogy comprises of Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux and Rabbit is Rich. It is intended as an amusing, sympathetic study of a man, Rabbit Angstron, putting up a fight against the inevitable.

Americana

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307512536

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Americana by John Updike Pdf

John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length. The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning with the long "Song of Myself," daily life, its furniture and consolations. There is little of the light verse with which Mr. Updike began his writing career nearly fifty years ago, but a light touch can be felt in his nimble manipulation of the ghosts of metric order, in his caressing of the living textures of things, and in his reluctance to wave goodbye to it all.

Rabbit Angstrom

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 1562 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679444596

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Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike Pdf

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 throughout these four magnificent novels—the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life. Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature, Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs, the longuers, the loves and frenzies, the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story. This Rabbit Angstrom volume is composed of the following novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.

A Month of Sundays

John Updike
A Month of Sundays Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645900

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A Month of Sundays by John Updike Pdf

An antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, in which a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. “Updike may be America’s finest novelist and [this] is quintessential Updike.”—The Washington Post At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past—his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his affair with his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his Biblical exegeses, and his smoldering desire for the directress of the retreat, the impregnable Ms. Prynne. A testament for our times.

Pigeon Feathers

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645764

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Pigeon Feathers by John Updike Pdf

When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike’s fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight.”

Of the Farm

John Updike
Of the Farm Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645757

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Of the Farm by John Updike Pdf

“A small masterpiece . . . With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction.”—The New York Times 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 confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and the strategies they use to stand their ground.

The Poorhouse Fair

John Updike
The Poorhouse Fair Book PDF

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679645771

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The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike Pdf

“Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.”—The New York Times Book Review The hero of John Updike’s first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse—a county home for the aged and infirm—overseen by Stephen Conner, a righteous young man who considers it his duty to know what is best for others. The action of the novel unfolds over a single summer’s day, the day of the poorhouse’s annual fair, a day of escalating tensions between Conner and the rebellious Hook. Its climax is a contest between progress and tradition, benevolence and pride, reason and faith. Praise for The Poorhouse Fair “A first novel of rare precision and real merit . . . a rich poorhouse indeed.”—Newsweek “Turning on a narrow plot of ground, it achieves the rarity of bounded, native truth, and comes forth as microcosm.”—Commonweal