Updike, John
Works: | 2,694 works in 10,660 publications in 36 languages and 266,535 library holdings |
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Genres: | Fiction Psychological fiction Novels Domestic fiction Short stories Poetry Fantasy fiction Witch fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works |
Roles: | Author, Editor, Translator, Author of introduction, Narrator, Contributor, Performer, Other, Interviewee, htt, Bibliographic antecedent, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Creator, Signer, win, Librettist, Writer of accompanying material, Speaker, Correspondent, Dedicatee, pre, Honoree |
Classifications: | PS3571.P4, 813.54 |
- The absurd hero in American fiction : Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger by David Galloway( Book )
- John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy : mastered irony in motion by Marshall Boswell( )
- Self-consciousness : memoirs by John Updike( Book )
- The John Updike encyclopedia by Jack De Bellis( )
- John Updike and the Cold War : drawing the Iron Curtain by D. Quentin Miller( )
- Star authors : literary celebrity in America by Joe Moran( )
- Updike and the patriarchal dilemma : masculinity in the Rabbit novels by Mary O'Connell( )
- Something and nothingness : the fiction of John Updike & John Fowles by John Neary( )
- John Updike by Charles Thomas Samuels( Book )
- Desperate faith : a study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike by Howard M Harper( Book )
- Updike by Adam Begley( Book )
- John Updike by Robert Detweiler( Book )
- Contemporary American literature : 1945-1972 : an introduction by Ihab Hassan( Book )
- John Updike by Harold Bloom( Book )
- John Updike by Robert Detweiler( Book )
- Odd jobs : essays and criticism by John Updike( Book )
- City of words: American fiction, 1950-1970 by Tony Tanner( Book )
- John Updike by Suzanne Henning Uphaus( Book )
- Fighters and lovers; theme in the novels of John Updike by Joyce B Markle( Book )
- Updike : America's man of letters by William H Pritchard( Book )


421 editions published between 1960 and 2021 in 21 languages and held by 6,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twenty-two-year-old Rabbit Angstrom is a salesman in a local department store, father of a preschool-age son, and husband to an alcoholic wife who was his second-best high school sweetheart. The squalor and tragedy of their lives reminds us that salvation is a personal undertaking
210 editions published between 1984 and 2018 in 13 languages and held by 4,598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie ply their individual witcheries in contemporary Eastwick, Rhode Island, and are themselves bewitched by a dark, wealthy, decadent stranger
175 editions published between 1981 and 2018 in 12 languages and held by 4,530 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The protagonist of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last-- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness
143 editions published between 1990 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 4,467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live."
177 editions published between 1971 and 2017 in 14 languages and held by 4,312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, it is 1969 and 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 to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail
153 editions published between 2005 and 2019 in 21 languages and held by 3,768 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ahmad, threatened by the hedonistic society around him, gets involved in a plot, with reverberations that rouse the Department of Homeland Security
237 editions published between 1900 and 2017 in 15 languages and held by 3,630 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This story retells the Greek myth of the centaur, Chiron, who sacrifices his immortality for Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes Olinger High School; Chiron teaches general science; and, Prometheus is his 15-year-old son. Set in 1947 Pennsylvania
91 editions published between 1994 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 3,532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Updike's seventeenth novel begins in 1910, and traces God's relation to four generations of an American family, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith, and becomes an encyclopedia salesman and a motion-picture addict. The remainder of Clarence's family moves to the small town of Basingstoke, Delaware, where his cautious son, Teddy, becomes a mailman. Faithless himself, Teddy marries a good Methodist girl and begets Esther, whose prayers are always answered; she becomes an object of worship, a twentieth-century goddess. Her neglected son, Clark, makes his way back to the fiery fundamentals of Protestant piety. The novel ends in 1990, in Lower Branch, Colorado, and on television. Taking its title from the "Battle-Hymn of the Republic," In the Beauty of the Lilies spins one saga, one wandering tapestry thread, of the American Century
214 editions published between 1967 and 2018 in 20 languages and held by 3,445 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Follows the lives of a group of couples in an upperclass Boston suburb through their parties, recreations, child neglect, and wife-swapping
39 editions published between 1901 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 3,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December
121 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 11 languages and held by 3,197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Updike presents the story of a fictitious modern African state called Kush, narrated tongue-in-cheek by Kush's exiled president, Colonel Felix Ellellou
176 editions published between 1959 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 3,036 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"These stories 'are filled with gentle humor and irony. Youth, marriage, and family life provide most of the themes." Cincinnati Public Libr
121 editions published between 1988 and 2013 in 18 languages and held by 2,917 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
New Englander Sarah Worth goes west to join a Hindu commune in Arizona. There she mingles with the other sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve salvation and release from illusion
28 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and German and held by 2,860 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Best American Short Stories of the Century brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary genre. Here are the stories that have endured the test of time: masterworks by such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Saroyan, Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Cynthia Ozick, and others. These are the writers who have shaped and defined the landscape of the American short story, who have unflinchingly explored all aspects of the human condition, and whose works will continue to speak to us as we enter the next century."--Jacket
124 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 2,858 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this antic riff on Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past: his marriage to the daughter of his ethics professor, his affair with his organist, his antipathetic conversations with his senile father and his bisexual curate, his golf scores, his poker hands, his Biblical exegeses, and his smoldering desire for the directress of the retreat, the impregnable Ms. Prynne--From item description
107 editions published between 1986 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 2,830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Divinity professor, Roger Lambert, is visited by Dale Kohler, an earnest young student who wants a grant to prove the existence of God by computer. The visit disrupts Roger's ordinary existence, bringing many complications to his life
59 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,743 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A stunning collection of poems that Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book. The opening sequence, "Endpoint," is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness ... For Updike, the writing of poetry was always a special joy, and this final collection is an eloquent and moving testament to the life of this extraordinary writer.--From publisher description
139 editions published between 1971 and 2014 in 16 languages and held by 2,708 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias--both married to other people--pursue a love affair with one another over the course of the summer of 1962, while vacillating between the old and new concepts of morality
114 editions published between 1965 and 2012 in 9 languages and held by 2,704 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Updike's most irresistible hero since Rabbit Angstrom is an author famous for his writer's block, a Jew adrift in a world of gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next, he view life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make readers laugh with delight and wince in recognition
64 editions published between 2008 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 2,665 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne. Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish them ill. How they cope with the lingering traces of their evil deeds, the shocks of a mysterious counterspell, and the advancing inroads of old age are at the heart of Updike's delightful, ominous sequel.--From publisher description


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- Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)
- Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)
- Bech, Henry (Fictitious character)
- Bech, Henry (Fictitious character)
- Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Mailer, Norman Other Contributor
- Carduff, Christopher Other Editor
- Kenison, Katrina Other Editor
- Roth, Philip Interviewee Narrator
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