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Rabbit, Run
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141187832 ISBN13: 9780141187839
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2006
Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with an alcoholic wife and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he flees from his family and his... More

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Rich in Russia
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141196254 ISBN13: 9780141196251
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Feb 2011
A collection of two short stories in which, the writer Henry Bech travels to Europe on a hapless cultural exchange, first to Russia, where he struggles to spend his money when everything - from his meals to his bugged hotel room - is already paid... More

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ISBN: 9780141042596 - My Father's Tears and Other Stories

My Father's Tears and Other Stories
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141042591 ISBN13: 9780141042596
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 May 2010
A collection of stories from the author's final years. John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation. 'Magnificent... More

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ISBN: 9780141044507 - Endpoint and Other Poems

Endpoint and Other Poems
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141044500 ISBN13: 9780141044507
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 May 2010
A collection of poems. John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even as they address his own imminent mortality. It is in the connected series of poems, "Endpoint"... More

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Rabbit Redux
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141188545 ISBN13: 9780141188546
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2006
In 1969, 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... More

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ISBN: 9780141188973 - The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141188979 ISBN13: 9780141188973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Feb 2007
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. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne... More

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Terrorist
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141027843 ISBN13: 9780141027845
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Jul 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. In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's... More

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Couples
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141188987 ISBN13: 9780141188980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Feb 2007
A novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. This is an intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously... More

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Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike

ISBN10: 0141188553 ISBN13: 9780141188553
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2006
It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's ok, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that... More

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Roger's Version
John Updike

ISBN10: 014118843X ISBN13: 9780141188430
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2006
Roger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings herself into an affair with a younger man, his faith in his own placid... More

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