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Product Description: A master class in art appreciation with a great American man of letters.In this lavishly illustrated collection of John Updike's recent art writings, a posthumous companion to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" (Newsday) in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" (The New York Times Book Review)...read more
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9780307957306 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 27, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A master class in art appreciation with a great American man of letters.

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A collection of essays and criticism discusses odd jobs, the female body, the Fourth of July, the Gospel of Matthew, Shaw, Anderson, Hemingway, Roth, Murdoch, Eco, Garcia Marquez, and others
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9780679404149 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays and criticism discusses odd jobs, the female body, the Fourth of July, the Gospel of Matthew, Shaw, Anderson, Hemingway, Roth, Murdoch, Eco, Garcia Marquez, and others

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9780812983791 | Random House Inc, September 18, 2012, cover price $25.00

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9780812983784 | Random House Inc, September 18, 2012, cover price $20.00

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A collection of non-fictional prose by the American novelist and poet, including parodies, autobiographical essays, and book reviews
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9780394414737 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1965, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of non-fictional prose by the American novelist and poet, including parodies, autobiographical essays, and book reviews

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9780812983777 | Random House Inc, September 18, 2012, cover price $17.00

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Collects fugitive reviews, speeches, essays, introductions, impressions, ruminations, and interview excerpts from the author's past ten years
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9780394498492, titled "Picked-up Pieces" | Random House Inc, December 1, 1975, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Collects fugitive reviews, speeches, essays, introductions, impressions, ruminations, and interview excerpts from the author's past ten years

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9780812983807, titled "Picked-Up Pieces" | Random House Inc, September 18, 2012, cover price $20.00
9780449212035, titled "Picked-up Pieces" | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, November 1, 1977), cover price $4.50

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9788483833902 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, June 30, 2012), cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Ahmad ha nacido en New Prospect, una ciudad industrial venida a menos del area de Nueva York. Es hijo de una norteamericana de origen irlandes y de un estudiante egipcio que desaparecio de sus vidas cuando tenia tres anos. A los once, con el beneplacito de su madre, se convirtio al Islam y, siguiendo las ensenanzas de su rigorista imam, el Sheij Rashid, lo fue asumiendo como identidad y escudo frente a la sociedad decadente, materialista y hedonista que le rodeaba...read more
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9788483833964 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, June 30, 2012), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Ahmad ha nacido en New Prospect, una ciudad industrial venida a menos del area de Nueva York.

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Product Description: The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû. (“A leader,” writes Colonel Ellelloû, “is one who, out of madness or goodness, takes upon himself the woe of a people...read more
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9780394502687 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1978, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In the imaginary sub-Saharan state of Kush, its American-educated dictator, Ellellou resists the incursion of Western civilization's questionable advances, but Coke, Macdonald's, and women's lib will not be put off

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9780812982978 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 13, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Coup describes violent events in the imaginary African nation of Kush, a large, landlocked, drought-ridden, sub-Saharan country led by Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû.
9780449242599 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellelou for his new role as the President of Kush.

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Product Description: Self-ConsciousnessOne of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an American man...read more
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9780517056431 | Outlet, October 1, 1990, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Self-ConsciousnessOne of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life.
9780394572222 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The distinguished author offers six related personal essays that detail the events of his childhood, his problems with a stammer and psoriasis, his thoughts on the Vietnam War, his family, and other topics

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9780449218211 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Self-ConsciousnessOne of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life.

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Product Description: Self-ConsciousnessOne of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer -- and of an American man...read more
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9780812982961, titled "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs" | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, March 13, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Self-ConsciousnessOne of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life.

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Product Description: Mas de tres decadas han transcurrido desde los diabolicos sucesos que se narran en Las brujas de Eastwick, y durante todos este tiempo las tres protagonistas, Alexandra, Jane y Sukie, no han perdido el contacto. En esos anos, las tres abandonaron la localidad, volvieron a casarse con maridos conseguidos gracias a sus poderes magicos y las tres acabaron enviudando...read more
By Ana Herrera (trans) and John Updike
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9788483833209 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, September 1, 2011), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Mas de tres decadas han transcurrido desde los diabolicos sucesos que se narran en Las brujas de Eastwick, y durante todos este tiempo las tres protagonistas, Alexandra, Jane y Sukie, no han perdido el contacto.

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Product Description: En 1910, el pastor presbiteriano Clarence Wilmot, tras perder primero la fe y luego la cabeza por el cine, se convierte en vendedor de enciclopedias. Con el empezara la saga de los Wilmot, compuesta por Teddy, que decidira no salir a ver mundo y se casara con la joven Emily; Essie, que acabara en Hollywood, convertida en una pequena diosa de la pantalla, y Clark, que desafia a todos sus antepasados y cae en manos de una secta...read more
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9788483833339 | Tusquets Editor, September 1, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: En 1910, el pastor presbiteriano Clarence Wilmot, tras perder primero la fe y luego la cabeza por el cine, se convierte en vendedor de enciclopedias.
9788483100615 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: A finales de los anos sesenta, ni siquiera la provinciana Eastwick, una pequena poblacion de Rhode Island, permanecia ajena a los cambios que erosionaban los cimientos de las costumbres y la moral del pais. En ese pueblo olvidado, tres divorciadas han descubierto que no solo tienen dotes artisticas sino que poseen poderes: Alexandra, esculpe y es capaz de desatar tormentas; Jane toca el violonchelo y puede volar; y Sukie escribe -aunque sea una columna de cotilleos- y transforma la leche en nata...read more
By Jose Ferrer (trans) and John Updike
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9788483832820 | Tusquets Editor, March 15, 2011, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A finales de los anos sesenta, ni siquiera la provinciana Eastwick, una pequena poblacion de Rhode Island, permanecia ajena a los cambios que erosionaban los cimientos de las costumbres y la moral del pais.

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Product Description: This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library...read more
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9780307700841, titled "Everyman's Library: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live/ The Border Trilogy/ Beloved/ Rabbit Angstrom/ Revolutionary Road/ The Easter Parade/ Eleven Kinds of Lonel" | Everymans Library, December 21, 2010, cover price $157.00 | About this edition: This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners.

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Product Description: Muchos conocen ya a Harry «Conejo» Angstrom, el entranable personaje creado por John Updike, un hombre dividido entre la libertad y la responsabilidad, el deseo de independencia y un anticuado sentido del deber, entre apremios sexuales y vagas especulaciones espirituales...read more
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9788472234772 | Tusquets, June 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Muchos conocen ya a Harry «Conejo» Angstrom, el entranable personaje creado por John Updike, un hombre dividido entre la libertad y la responsabilidad, el deseo de independencia y un anticuado sentido del deber, entre apremios sexuales y vagas especulaciones espirituales.

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By John Updike (editor)
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Miscellaneous:

9781400824274 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 15, 2010, cover price $10.95

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Product Description: On September 28, 1960-a day that will live forever in the hearts of fans-Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park. Seizing the occasion, he belted a solo home run- a storybook ending to a storied career...read more
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9781598530711 | Library of America, April 29, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: On September 28, 1960-a day that will live forever in the hearts of fans-Red Sox slugger Ted Williams stepped up to the plate for his last at-bat in Fenway Park.

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Product Description: Superada la madurez, comienza esa crucial etapa de la vida en que todo ser humano se plantea su paso por el mundo y piensa en lo que le queda por vivir. En los veintiun relatos que componen este volumen, el escritor norteamericano John Updike explora a traves de sus protagonistas desde las veleidades del amor y del sexo hasta la muerte de los padres...read more
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9788483832936 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, April 15, 2010), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Superada la madurez, comienza esa crucial etapa de la vida en que todo ser humano se plantea su paso por el mundo y piensa en lo que le queda por vivir.

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Product Description: 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. And into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them into his mansion, where he becomes the focus of their sensuous celebrations, and which is purest evil...read more
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9781410417268 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 19, 2009), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace.
9780394537658 | Limited edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1984), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie ply their individual witcheries in contemporary Eastwick, Rhode Island, and are themselves bewitched by a dark, wealthy, decadent stranger
9780517466643 | Random House Value Pub, May 1, 1984, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace.
9780394537603 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1984, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie ply their individual witcheries in contemporary Eastwick, Rhode Island, and are themselves bewitched by a dark, wealthy, decadent stranger

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9780449912102 | Reissue edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1996), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious.
9780449206478 | Reissue edition (Crest, May 1, 1995), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie ply their individual witcheries in contemporary Eastwick, Rhode Island, and are themselves bewitched by a dark, wealthy, decadent stranger

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9780739370810 | Unabridged edition (Random House, October 28, 2008), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.

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Product Description: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity...read more
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9780307271761 | Everymans Library, August 4, 2009, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.

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Product Description: “Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself...read more
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9780307271563 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 2, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: John Updike’s first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father’s Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.

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9780345513809, titled "My Father's Tears And Other Stories: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, May 25, 2010), cover price $16.00 | also contains My Father's Tears and Other Stories | About this edition: “Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.

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9780307272027 | Doubleday, June 2, 2009, cover price $25.95 | also contains My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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Product Description: “Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.” That’s how John Updike describes one of his elderly protagonists in this, his final collection of short stories. He might have been writing about himself...read more
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9780345513809, titled "My Father's Tears And Other Stories: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, May 25, 2010), cover price $16.00 | also contains My Father's Tears and Other Stories | About this edition: “Drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned.

Miscellaneous:

9780307272027 | Doubleday, June 2, 2009, cover price $25.95 | also contains My Father's Tears and Other Stories

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9781423397922 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 2, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
9781423397946 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 2, 2009), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
9781423397953, titled "My Father's Tears and Other Stories: Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 2, 2009), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.

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Product Description: John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel...read more
By Luke Daniels (narrator) and John Updike
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9781423397939 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 2, 2009), cover price $92.97 | About this edition: John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.

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Product Description: A stunning collection of poems that John 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...read more
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9780307272867 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 31, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.

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Product Description: Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother...read more
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9780375409080 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards adultery and treachery to ascend the throne

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9780449006979 | Random House Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards adultery and treachery to ascend the throne.

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9781439568576 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Using details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for Hamlet, John Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother.

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