The Centaur, Updike John

Автор: Updike John
Название: The Witches of Eastwick
ISBN: 0141188979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141188973
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Описание: 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, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Villages
ISBN: 0141020148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141020143
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Описание: Owen Mackenzie`s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Memories of the Ford Administration
ISBN: 0141188995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141188997
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Описание: When a history professor - Alfred Clayton - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Marry Me
ISBN: 0141189401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189406
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Описание: Sally is big and pampered. She`s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally, but he`s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who`s been sleeping with Richard ...As a hot, feverish summer of weekends, secret phone calls and lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they`ve been letting on.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Brazil
ISBN: 0141188944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141188942
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Описание: Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil`s wild west.

Автор: Updike John
Название: The Widows of Eastwick
ISBN: 0141038039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141038032
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Описание: 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 have gone.

Автор: Updike John
Название: A Month of Sundays
ISBN: 0141189002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189000
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Описание: Concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Terrorist
ISBN: 0345493915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345493910
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The terrorist of John Updike's title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qur'an as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping New Jersey factory town of New Prospect. Neither Jack Levy, his life-weary guidance counselor at Central High, nor Joryleen Grant, his seductive black classmate, succeeds in diverting Ahmad from what the Qur'an calls the Straight Path. Now driving a truck for a local Lebanese furniture store--a job arranged through his imam--Ahmad thinks he has discovered God's purpose for him. But to quote the Qur'an: "Of those who plot, God is the best."

Автор: Updike John
Название: Villages
ISBN: 0345477316 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345477316
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In this wry novel of sentimental education and sexual pursuit, we follow Owen Mackenzie, a representative man of the author's generation, from cradle to grave, and from bed to bed. His life and relationships are shaped by three villages, warm-lit communities that keep the darkness at bay from within and without. In Willow, Pennsylvania, the young Owen is transfixed by his first glimpses of female beauty. In Middle Falls, Connecticut, he marries, becomes a first-wave computer programmer, and discovers the very grownup pleasures of serial adultery. Finally, married for a second time, he retires with his memories, illusions, and fantasies to the somewhat geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. John Updike turns Owen's personal odyssey into a radiant, sensual fable of the seasons of a man's life--and of the getting of wisdom in America.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Of the Farm
ISBN: 0345468228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345468222
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "A small masterpiece . . . With Of the Farm, John Updike has achieved a sureness of touch, a suppleness of style, and a subtlety of vision that is gained by few writers of fi ction."--The New York Times

In this short novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon them, as do phantoms from the near future (nurses, lawyers, land developers). Of the Farm concerns the places people choose to live their lives, and the strategies they use to stand their ground.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Centaur
ISBN: 0449215229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780449215227
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 381 р.
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Автор: Updike John
Название: Basic Bech
ISBN: 0140290184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140290189
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Описание: Henry Bech - the author of "Travel Light" - has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by reviewers, academics, critics and readers across the world. Suffering from temporary impotence and not-so-temporary writer`s block, Bech finds renewed fame when he returns to his native America and "Think Big", his blockbuster hits the shops.

Автор: Updike John
Название: Licks of Love
ISBN: 0345446739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345446732
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 512 р.
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Автор: Updike John
Название: Gertrude and Claudius
ISBN: 034544437X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345444370
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 481 р.
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Автор: Updike John
Название: Rabbit at Rest
ISBN: 0141188448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141188447
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Описание: Fifty-six and overweight, Harry Rabbit Angstrom has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, is giving him cause for concern. His son is a wreck of a man and his wife has decided that she wants to be a working girl. He has to make the most of life. After all, he doesn`t have much time left.