Author: John Updike

Gertrude And Claudius

By: John Updike

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Publisher: Ballintine : 2000

Seller ID: 0143115

ISBN-13: 9780449006979

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband's body is cold. But in this imaginative "prequel" to the play, John Updike makes a case for the royal couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince. "I hoped to keep the texture light," Updike said of this novel, "to move from the mi...
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Pigeon Feathers

By: John Updike

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fawcett : 1986

Seller ID: 0152434

ISBN-13: 9780449211328

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

Rabbit Is Rich Vol 2 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: John Updike

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Fawcett : 1991

Seller ID: 0007049

ISBN-13: 9780449245484

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Fair

Rabbit Run Rabbit Redux Vol 1

By: John Updike

Price: $14.48

Publisher: Ballantine : 1988

Seller ID: 0130527

ISBN-13: 9780345464569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume."RABBIT, RUN "Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own."-"The Washington Post ""Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings."-"The Village Voice" RABBIT REDUX " 'Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling-a great and beautiful th...
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Witches Of Eastwick

By: John Updike

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Ballantine : 1985

Seller ID: 0004069

ISBN-13: 9780449912102

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters and] The Witches of Eastwick is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . A] comedy of the blackest sort."--The New York Times Book Review 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 divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little cov...
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Author: John Updike

Gertrude And Claudius

Pigeon Feathers

Rabbit Is Rich Vol 2 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Rabbit Run Rabbit Redux Vol 1

Witches Of Eastwick