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Toward the End of Time - John Updike
SUMMARY: JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience." --Chicago Tribune Toward th... -
The Maples stories - John Updike
EDITORIAL REVIEW: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous ... -
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red ("a sumptuous thriller"--John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin"--New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of dispara... -
Rich in Russia - John Updike
SUMMARY:There, in Russia five years ago, when Cuba had been taken out of the oven to cool and Vietnam was still coming to a simmer, Bech did find a quality of life impoveris... -
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
SUMMARY:It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a... -
My Life as a Fake_ A Novel - Peter Carey
Review"My Life as a Fake_ _is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling." –John Updike, The New Y... -
Miracles - C. S. Lewis
Review"I read Lewis for comfort and pleasure many years ago, and a glance into the books revives my old admiration." -- John UpdikeProduct DescriptionAn impec... -
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;
ReviewNabokov writes prose the only way it should be written—that is, ecstatically. (_John Updike_ ) Product DescriptionThe classic novel from the author of -
Consider the Lobster_ And Other - David Foster Wallace
SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David F...