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John Updike Books
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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.59 — 64,319 ratings — published 1960
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,093 ratings — published 1981
Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,731 ratings — published 1971
The Witches of Eastwick (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.21 — 18,751 ratings — published 1984
Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)
by (shelved 21 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,590 ratings — published 1990
In the Beauty of the Lilies (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,260 ratings — published 1996
The Widows of Eastwick (Eastwick #2)
by (shelved 13 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.00 — 2,314 ratings — published 2008
Couples (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,927 ratings — published 1968
The Centaur (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,019 ratings — published 1963
Terrorist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.17 — 4,750 ratings — published 2007
Marry Me: A Romance (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,989 ratings — published 1976
Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.46 — 3,086 ratings — published 1994
Roger's Version (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,471 ratings — published 1986
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" (Rabbit Angstrom, #5)
by (shelved 8 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,459 ratings — published 2000
Villages (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.28 — 1,333 ratings — published 2004
My Father's Tears and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,569 ratings — published 2006
A Month of Sundays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,605 ratings — published 1974
Toward the End of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.23 — 1,243 ratings — published 1997
Updike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.10 — 646 ratings — published 2014
Seek My Face (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.38 — 985 ratings — published 2002
Gertrude and Claudius (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,559 ratings — published 2000
The Complete Henry Bech (Everyman's Library)
by (shelved 4 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.90 — 253 ratings — published 1993
Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.18 — 255 ratings — published 1983
The Coup (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.38 — 1,039 ratings — published 1978
Bech is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.62 — 579 ratings — published 1982
Memories of the Ford Administration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.29 — 568 ratings — published 1992
Bech: A Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,150 ratings — published 1970
Of the Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,543 ratings — published 1965
The Poorhouse Fair (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.26 — 898 ratings — published 1959
The Women Who Got Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.14 — 387 ratings — published 2007
Selected Letters of John Updike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.21 — 39 ratings — published
Updike: America's Man of Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams: A Library of America Special Publication (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.47 — 365 ratings — published 1977
The Afterlife and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.72 — 692 ratings — published 1994
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.08 — 88 ratings — published 1991
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.04 — 213 ratings — published 2007
Picked-Up Pieces (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.14 — 91 ratings — published 1975
Conversations with John Updike (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.67 — 18 ratings — published 1994
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,034 ratings — published 1994
A Child's Calendar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,321 ratings — published 1965
Rabbit Remembered (Rabbit Angstrom #5)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.76 — 587 ratings — published 2002
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,552 ratings — published 1962
Self-Consciousness (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.81 — 605 ratings — published 1989
Buchanan Dying : A Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.07 — 58 ratings — published 1974
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as john-updike)
avg rating 3.69 — 397 ratings — published 1998
Vita e avventure di Henry Bech, scrittore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as john-updike)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2001
Always Looking: Essays on Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-updike)
avg rating 3.80 — 144 ratings — published 2012
John Updike: A Critical Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as john-updike)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010 (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as john-updike)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2013
“The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring
by John Updike
When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens,
And cups are freshly cut, and birdies sing,
Triumphantly the stifled golfer preens
In cleats and slacks once more, and checks his swing.
This year, he vows, his head will steady be,
His weight-shift smooth, his grip and stance ideal;
And so they are, until upon the tee
Befall the old contortions of the real.
So, too, the tennis-player, torpid from
Hibernal months of television sports,
Perfects his serve and feels his knees become
Sheer muscle in their unaccustomed shorts.
Right arm relaxed, the left controls the toss,
Which shall be high, so that the racket face
Shall at a certain angle sweep across
The floated sphere with gutty strings—an ace!
The mind's eye sees it all until upon
The courts of life the faulty way we played
In other summers rolls back with the sun.
Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade.”
― Collected Poems: 1953-1993
by John Updike
When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens,
And cups are freshly cut, and birdies sing,
Triumphantly the stifled golfer preens
In cleats and slacks once more, and checks his swing.
This year, he vows, his head will steady be,
His weight-shift smooth, his grip and stance ideal;
And so they are, until upon the tee
Befall the old contortions of the real.
So, too, the tennis-player, torpid from
Hibernal months of television sports,
Perfects his serve and feels his knees become
Sheer muscle in their unaccustomed shorts.
Right arm relaxed, the left controls the toss,
Which shall be high, so that the racket face
Shall at a certain angle sweep across
The floated sphere with gutty strings—an ace!
The mind's eye sees it all until upon
The courts of life the faulty way we played
In other summers rolls back with the sun.
Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade.”
― Collected Poems: 1953-1993
“Neutrinos, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And, scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me. Like tall
And painless guillotines they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed—you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.”
―
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And, scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me. Like tall
And painless guillotines they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed—you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.”
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