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PaperbackEngels9781476667065
21-11-2017
Who was John Updike? Fifty-three commentators have much to tell us. They reveal Updike through anecdote, observation, and insight. Their memories reveal Updike the high school prankster, the golfer, the creator of bedtime stories, the charming ironist, the faithful correspondent of scholars, the devoted friend, and the dedicated practitioner of his art. Meer
paperbackNederlands224 blz.9789492754004
3-11-2017
Na dertig jaar niet leverbaar te zijn geweest verschijnt nu een geheel herziene en uitgebreide vertaling van een van de bekendste boeken van John Updike. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521845328
6-4-2006
John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521607308
6-4-2006
John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140290189
2-12-1999
Henry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers across world. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140023404
26-10-1978
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140255898
24-4-1997
One hot afternoon in 1910, the Reverend Clarence Wilmot, standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140261561
5-2-1998
As a golfer for almost forty years, John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle to the camaraderie of good golf and its own attendant perils. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140290905
5-7-2001
Using details from the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for "Hamlet", this tale brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141027845
26-7-2007
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. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780241962268
2-5-2013
Presents a collection of essays, poems and short stories. This book includes a collection of the author's best gossip. Meer
GebondenEngels9780241249390
29-10-2015
Features a collection of poems from metaphysical epigrams, and lyrical odes to blank-verse sonnets, on topics from Roman busts to Lucian Freud to postage stamps. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141011165
29-1-2004
On a spring day in Vermont, 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and time that lies between them. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141042596
27-5-2010
A collection of stories from the author's final years. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141016085
7-4-2005
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression in a small Pennsylvania town. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140289701
2-10-2014
Offers a collection of author's critical essays and reflections. This title presents a discussion on contemporary art, issues and people. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140298963
28-3-2002
Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in entirely unexpected ways. Meer