Coffee with Hemingway (Coffee with...Series)
 A strong and smart blend: I have been a life-long student of Ernest Hemingway's literature and books about his life and work. So I have to admit that I initially approached this latest offering about Papa with initial skepticism. Coffee with Hemingway? I [... more]
$9.95
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
The Master Speaks: The master speaks in this latest collection of what Updike calls his freelancing. What a pleasure to survey literature from his perspective. Beautiful language, fascinating views of technique in others' writings, and brilliant, [... more]
$40.00
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Gertrude and Claudius
Amazon.com Review: Borrowing a phrase from Hamlet for the title of his 1999 nonfiction collection, John Updike may perhaps have been dropping hints about his fictional work in progress. He has, in any case, now delivered Gertrude and Claudius--and his [... more]
$18.60
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The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
This is a play, not a history.: This is not about CHina, any more than Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about Virginia Woolf. For info on Mao and the Long March, see Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China" or Harrison [... more]
$11.95
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Rabbit Redux
Updike's most forceful novel: The second of the Rabbit novels. Ten years have elapsed since the end of RABBIT, RUN, and times in America are not so good: chaos reigns as the country is embroiled in Vietnam, the "sexual revolution" is exploding, [... more]
$80.00
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The Golden West: Hollywood Stories
An intriguing presentation by an industry insider: John Updike provides the introduction to The Golden West: Hollywood Stories, a blend of autobiography and an account of writing for the movies. It was 1937 when nearly-thirty author Fuchs came to [... more]
$24.95
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The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
Hilarious Humbug: Bah to those who found this book slight and unfunny. This is the anti-Christmas cold pricklies for those who don't enjoy the warm fuzzies of the season (and even for those who do). This is a sarcastic, cynical look at some Christmas [... more]
$9.95
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Rabbit At Rest
Amazon.com Review: It's 1989, and Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom feels anything but restful. In fact he's frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death--and in the final year of the Reagan era, he's right to be afraid. His 55-year-old body, swollen with [... more]
$104.00
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Rabbit Is Rich
Updike's Brilliant and Fun Look at 80s America: The third in the series of Rabbit books, Updike has glorious fun with Rabbit as the prosperous owner of a Toyota dealership. Flush with money, Rabbit navigates the world of upper-class America in his usual [... more]
$96.00
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Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs! (Selected Shorts: A ...
Excellent Storytelling!: I have been a devoted Selected Shorts fan for about 12 years and I thought this collection was really first-class. I listened to it at night in the car when I was on the road and enjoyed it thoroughly, especially the stories & [... more]
$28.00
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Gertrude and Claudius
Amazon.com Review: Borrowing a phrase from Hamlet for the title of his 1999 nonfiction collection, John Updike may perhaps have been dropping hints about his fictional work in progress. He has, in any case, now delivered Gertrude and Claudius--and his [... more]
$35.10
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In the Beauty of the Lilies
Amazon.com Review: When Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian clergyman, loses his faith and becomes an encyclopedia salesman, he opens the saga of one American family's twentieth-century relationship with God and all things religious. A REALLY good read: [... more]
$18.60
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