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Bech at Bay - A Quasi-Novel by John Updike
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good
Make it easy on yourself! ReadJohn Updikein Large Print * All Random House Large Print titles are published in a 16-point typeface Henry Bech, the moderately well known Jewish-American writer who served as the hero of John Updike's previousBech: A Book(1970) andBech Is Back(1982), has become older bu ...Show more
Problems and Other Stories by John Updike
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Roger's Version by John Updike
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife -- and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longin ...Show more
Seek My Face by John Updike
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
John Updike’s twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers q ...Show more
The Coup by John Updike
$16.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim F lix Ellello . ("A leader," writes Colonel Ellello , "is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people. There are few ...Show more
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years before h ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"John 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."--The New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have des ...Show more
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