Best John Updike Novels - April 2024

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

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 of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest He... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0395843677
• UPC: 046442843676
• ASIN: 0395843677
• ISBN: 0395843677
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A feminist jeremiad nested inside a brilliant comic novel—a book that makes you laugh so hard you don’t notice till later that your eyebrows have been singed off.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “Funny, dirty, sly, irresistible.”—New York A finely observed, timely exploration of marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition from one of the most exciting writers working today Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every oth... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H71LX88
• ASIN: B07H71LX88
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Early Stories: 1953-1975

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction   A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story. “Contemplating John Updike’s monumental achievement in the short story, one is moved to think of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and perhaps William F... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345463366
• ASIN: 0345463366
• ISBN: 0345463366
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The House of God

By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about Roy Basch and five of his fellow interns at the most renowned teaching hospital in the country. “The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon.  Singularly compelling…brutally honest.”—The New York TimesStruggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, ev... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00400NHRO
• ASIN: B00400NHRO
• Manufacturer: Berkley

John Updike: The Collected Stories: A Library of America Boxed Set

From his first collection, The Same Door, released in 1959, to his last, My Father’s Tears, published fifty years later, John Updike was America’s reigning master of the short story, “our second Hawthorne,” as Philip Roth described him. His evocations of small-town Pennsylvania life, and of his own religious, artistic, and sexual awakening, transfixed readers of The New Yorker and of the early collections Pigeon Feathers (1962) and The Music School (1966). In these and the works that followed—the formal experiments and wickedly tart tales of suburban adultery in Museums and Women (19... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598532502
• ASIN: 1598532502
• ISBN: 1598532502
• Brand: Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Roger's Version: A Novel

As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theological-scientific debate that ensues, and the wicked strategies that Roger employs to disembarrass Dale of his faith, form the substance of this novel—these and the current of erotic attraction that pulls Esther, Roger’s much younger wife, away from him and into Dale’s bed. The novel, a majestic allegory of faith and reason, ends also as a bla... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0449912183
• ASIN: 0449912183
• ISBN: 0449912183
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Rabbit, Run

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0449911659
• ASIN: 0449911659
• ISBN: 0449911659
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

The Corrections: A Novel (Recent Picador Highlights)

• ASIN: B0022VV0RC
• ASIN: B0022VV0RC
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel

• ASIN: B006L7ROUU
• ASIN: B006L7ROUU
• Manufacturer: Random House

My Father's Tears: And Other Stories

“Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself. In My Father’s Tears, the author revisits his signature characters, places, and themes—Americans in suburbs, cities, and small towns grappling with faith and infidelity—in a gallery of portraits of his aging generation, men and women for whom making peace with the past is now paramount. The Seattle Times called My Father’s Tears “a hauntin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345513800
• ASIN: 0345513800
• ISBN: 0345513800
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Sacred Hunger

Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B005X0JSIW
• ASIN: B005X0JSIW
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Rabbit Redux

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.

• ASIN: 0449911934
• ASIN: 0449911934
• ISBN: 0449911934
• Brand: Random House Trade
• Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Henry and Cato: A Novel

• ASIN: B00AG8GV1S
• ASIN: B00AG8GV1S
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome,” writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you’ll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• ASIN: B01N7HZA3K
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fascinating Facts About Famous Fiction Authors and the Greatest Novels of All Time: The Book Lover's Guide to Literary Trivia

If you love classic literature and reading novels from famous fiction authors then you are going to love this book! In Fascinating Facts, literary trivia expert and author Dave Astor provides 100-plus short chapters which contain anecdotes, oddities, coincidences, and of course great trivia about the greatest authors who have ever put pen to paper. It’s no surprise that the best writers have interesting facts surrounding them, because famous authors have to be pretty fascinating themselves in order to create the literature we cherish and enjoy so much. Here is a sample of some of the many ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0692851488
• ASIN: 0692851488
• ISBN: 0692851488
• Manufacturer: DaveAstorWrites.com

The John Updike Audio Collection - Audiobook

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.

• UPC: 770699180
• Rating: 4.0

Couples : A Novel

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

• UPC: 440999
• Rating: 3.727

The House of God

At once hilarious and brutally honest, this novel reaches beyond the white lab coat and reveals what doctors, nurses, and students actually endure. "The House of God" has done for medicine what "M*A*S*H" did for

• UPC: 13371180
• Rating: 3.643

Camino Island : A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A delightfully lighthearted caper . . . a] fast-moving, entertaining tale."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library.

• UPC: 689320415
• Rating: 3.778

John Updike Reading “Lifeguard” from Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories - Audiobook

This well-known short story appears in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, one of John Updike’s earliest books and is narrated by a divinity student at his summer job. From the heights of his wooden throne,

• UPC: 750580193

Io odio John Updike - eBook

Uscito per la prima volta nel 2006, Io odio John Updike è stato l’esordio di Giordano Tedoldi. Libro di culto, oscuro, inquietante, popolato di personaggi misteriosi, immerso in atmosfere noir, allucinate e quasi fantascientifiche, ha

• UPC: 115097625

John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA #311) : The Poorhouse Fair / Rabbit, Run / The Centaur / Of the Farm

Library of America launches its definitive multi-volume edition of John Updike's novels with the four early works that signaled the arrival of one of the most gifted young novelists of the 1960s. John Updike had

• UPC: 220300509

Terrorist : A Novel

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

• UPC: 5279041
• Rating: 2.778

The Best American Short Stories of the Century

A collection of fifty-five important pieces of short fiction of the twentieth century features masterworks by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, and other notable

• UPC: 743425
• Rating: 3.75

The Power and the Glory

A tormented alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in

• UPC: 40974894
• Rating: 3.974