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Always Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Following on from the acclaimed "Just Looking" and "Still Looking", "Always Looking" is an insightful collection of art criticism and a masterclass in appreciating art - from the great American man of letters, John Updike. "Always Looking" treats readers to a series of elegant and sensitive essays on ar ...Show more
Brazil by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 wild wes ...Show more
Complete Henry Bech - B Fmt by John Updike
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 celebrity.
Couples by John Updike
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England.
Due Considerations by John Updike
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This new collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, 'Everything Considered', in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by Engl ...Show more
Due Considerations : Essays and Criticism by John Updike
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
This collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, 'Everything Considered', in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English ...Show more
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Endpoint" opens with a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of Updike's recent birthdays and culminate in his confrontation with his final illness. They look back on the boy that Updike once was, on his family and little town and the circumstances that fed his love of writing. ...Show more
Endpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, "Endpoint", written on his last few birthdays and culminating with the illness that killed ...Show more
Licks of Love by John Updike
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Janice and Nelson Angstrom, plus several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in unexpected ways.
Marry Me by John Updike
$9.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard!
More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections. From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary art, issues and people, told from the inimitable perspective of Pulitzer prizewinner John Updike. Wide ra ...Show more
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation. 'Magnificent, exhilarating, crisply evocative, rippling with irony. Updike's genius can be seen on peak form. With this book, a talent ...Show more