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Terrorist by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy Qur'an, as expounded to him by a local mosque's imam. ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories of the Century by John Updike (Editor, Introduction by); Katrina Kenison (Consultant Editor)
$30.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
John Updike has selected enduring stories from the eighty-four annual volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, and the result is "a spectacular tapestry of fictional achievement" (Entertainment Weekly). Available for the first time on compact disc, this extraordinary collection features a wide variet ...Show more
The Early Stories 1853-1975 by John Updike
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Beginning in childhood, moving on to marriage, and culminating in the bitter aftermath of the swinging sixties,The Early Stories read like an emotional diary of Updike's generation. Finishing this volume a reader has the impression that Updike is...akin to Coleridge and Shelley, with a American twist." ...Show more
The Terrorist by John Updike
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, it traces the journey of one young man from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented co ...Show more
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike
$12.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
<p>There comes a time in the “Holiday Season” when it all gets just a bit nauseating. The Twelve Terrors of Christmas is the perfect antidote! Updike gives a unique point of view about Christmas and the late Gorey’s drawings are, as usual, one of a kind. This long out ...Show more
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees - Alexandra, Jane and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows. The cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China a ...Show more
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 before h ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
The Women Who Got Away by John Updike
$12.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Loves
In the small town of Pierce Junction adultery is the popular pastime and pillow talk the common currency. Martin knows the women he hasn't yet seduced hold his attention for the longest, and Winifred, married to his own wife's lover, stirs him in ways he never expects. United by the theme of love, the w ...Show more
Three Trips by John Updike
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Nobody has done more to chart American life through fiction over the last half-century than John Updike, and he is as much a master of the short story as of the novel as this collection proves.
Toward the End of Time by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of ...Show more