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  • Bill Pratt, The Saw-buck Philosopher
    Carroll Perry / John Sheridan Zelie / Daniel Berkeley Updike
    'Bill Pratt, The Saw-buck Philosopher' is an appreciation of the life, public services, and speeches of Bill Pratt, a figure who ministered to the entertainment and edification of Williams College students for over half a century. Written by John Sheridan Zelie, Carroll Perry, and Daniel Berkeley Updike, this work celebrates Pratt’s unique role as a campus icon and informal phi...
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    20,05 €

  • Self-Consciousness
    John Updike
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    17,75 €

  • Of the Farm
    John Updike
    Of the Farm recounts Joey Robinson’s visit to the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives alone. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife Peggy and an eleven-year-old stepson Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy the delicate balance of love and sex is threatened by a dangerous new awareness. ...
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  • The Centaur
    John Updike
    In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron the noblest centaur and his own relationship to Prometheus The Centaur is one ...
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  • Terrorist
    John Updike
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    22,51 €

  • The Coup
    John Updike
    Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in the subtle skills of revolutionary dictatorship. Still less did they expect him to acquire four wives... ...
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    22,38 €

  • Toward the End of Time
    John Updike
    Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless Ben’s life traced by his journal entries over the course of the year retains much of its accustomed comforts. Something of a science buff he finds his personal...
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    22,27 €

  • S.
    John Updike
    In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat. Famous for his transcendent wisdom and divine immobility the Arhat has transferred his ahram from India to Arizona where he and his enthusiastic entourage are attempting to make the desert fruitful. ...
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    17,78 €

  • Rogers Version
    John Updike
    Middle-aged brilliant and bored Roger Lambert is a professor of Divinity at a New England university. Firmly convinced that religious belief can only justified by recourse to pure faith he is dismissive when visited by a gangling student who claims with evangelical zeal that computer technology is on the brink of proving the existence of God. But when his unhappy wife flin...
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    17,52 €

  • In the Beauty of the Lilies
    John Updike
    Taking its title from the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES traces one family’s profound journey through four generations--and across the spiritual landscape of twentieth-century America. It is one of John Updike’s fullest and finest work of fiction. ...
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    19,24 €

  • Of the Farm
    John Updike
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  • Seek My Face
    John Updike
    On a spring day in Vermont seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who defined their times. As the day wears on Kathryn and Hope - interviewer and interviewee - try to understand o...
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    23,72 €

  • Seek My Face
    John Updike
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    15,87 €

  • Licks of Love
    John Updike
    Collected with a dozen wonderful stories all set in classic Updike territory the short novel ’RABBIT REMEMBERED’ is a major work in its own right - a riveting return to Updike’s most celebrated fictional world. Janice and Nelson Angstrom plus several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of t...
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    21,01 €

  • Licks of Love
    John Updike
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  • Gertrude And Claudius
    John Updike
    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. As only he could Updike recasts a tale of medieval violence and presents the case for its ce...
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    19,24 €

  • Gertrude and Claudius
    John Updike
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    16,12 €

  • Basic Bech
    John Updike
    Basic Bech combines two classic titles -- Bech: A Book and Bech is Back -- from one of John Updike’s most beloved characters.Henry Bech the celebrated 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 ...
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    23,65 €

  • Bech at Bay
    John Updike
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    22,98 €

  • Golf Dreams
    John Updike
    As a golfer for almost forty years John Updike has written frequently about the game. This gathering of his pieces covers everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle to the camaraderie of good golf and its own attendant perils. ...
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    23,96 €

  • Golf Dreams
    John Updike
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    18,20 €

  • In the Beauty of the Lilies
    John Updike
    One hot afternoon in 1910 the Reverend Clarence Wilmot standing in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church experiences the last vestiges of his faith departing. True to this revelation Clarence abandons the pulpit and becomes an encyclopedia salesman. What follows is the saga of the Wilmot family one wandering tapestry thread within the American century. This is the ...
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    26,34 €

  • In the Beauty of the Lilies
    John Updike
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    16,31 €

  • Couples
    John Updike
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    20,32 €

  • Rabbit Redux
    John Updike
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    18,93 €

  • Rabbit at Rest
    John Updike
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    20,17 €

  • Roger’s Version
    John Updike
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    18,37 €

  • The Afterlife
    John Updike
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    17,67 €