John Updike

Wiosna 2001 roku, środkowy Vermont. Pewnego dnia spotykają się dwie kobiety. Siedemdziesięcioośmioletnia malarka Hope Chafetz, która podczas swego burzliwego życia nosiła również nazwisko Ouderkirk, McCoy i Holloway, udziela wywiadu Kathryn - młodej dziennikarce z Nowego Jorku. Hope, przedstawiając zwrotne wydarzenia własnej kariery, podsumowuje...

A Molecular and Genetic ApproachPrimary immunodeficiency diseases, first recognized 60 years ago, are inherited disorders that affect human adaptive and innate immunity. In most cases, affected individuals experience recurrent infections, but they may also suffer from autoimmune diseases and malignancies.  This third edition of Primary...

A NovelSet in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasy depicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, and its natural resources tainted. The hero is Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor, who, like Thoreau, sticks close to home and...

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of hisor any othergeneration. Its hero is Harry ';Rabbit' Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle...

A NovelWhen historian Alfred ';Alf' Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (197477), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf's highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams...

Short StoriesThe theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take on a new urgency as earthquakes, illnesses, lost wallets, and deaths of distant...