Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions.
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 fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded...
The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charism...
"Ten couples live in Tarbox, an out-of-the-way New England town. They form an exclusive group that feeds on petty rivalries, secrets, wordplay, entertaining, skiiing and sex. Discreetly swapping partners, they conduct their rituals under the watchful...
Concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.
In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona where he and his enthusiastic...
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 bana...
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 Benâs life traced...
From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a spry septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next....
It�s 1989, and Harry �Rabbit� Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are givin...
At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at which the old and infirm sell their produce on stalls to the people of the local town. Bitter, resentful and edging towards...
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of this bemused literary icon, one of Updike�s greatest creations, are desc...
In 1969, the times are changing in America. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife leaves him, and suddenly, into his confused life comes Jill, a runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend...
It�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. Itï...
âJohn Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.ââ The New York Times Book Review...
âA small masterpiece . . With Of the Farm , John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction.ââ The New York Times...
On a spring day in Vermont seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the...
Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet John Updike brings to life Gertrudeâs girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet and her middle-a...