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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
[Paperback]Author(s):John UpdikeA collection of stories from the author's final years. -
Rich in Russia
[Paperback]Author(s):John UpdikeA collection of two short stories in which, the writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend his money when everything - from his meals to his bugged hotel room - is already paid for, and then to Rumania. -
The Power And The Glory
[Paperback]Author(s):Graham GreeneIntroduction by:John UpdikeDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for. -
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
[Hardback]Author(s):John UpdikeA collection of short stories that include "Fiftieth", "The Full Glass", and "Varieties of Religious Experiences". -
The Maples Stories
[Hardback]Author(s):John UpdikeOffers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared. -
Rabbit at Rest
[Paperback]Afterword by:Justin CartwrightAuthor(s):John UpdikeFifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life. After all, he doesn't have much time left. -
Rabbit Is Rich
[Paperback]Author(s):John UpdikeIt'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 out? -
Rabbit, Run
[Paperback]Author(s):John UpdikeHarry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with an alcoholic wife and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he flees from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. -
The Women Who Got Away
[Paperback]Author(s):John UpdikeIn 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. -
Roger's Version
[Paperback]Author(s):John UpdikeRoger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings herself into an affair with a younger man, his faith in his own placid life is thrown into question. This novel presents an exploration of religion, uncertainty and passion.
