John Updike

A NovelIn 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,...

Short StoriesThe Music School is a place of learning, in which a sheltered South Dakota boy meets his roommate at Harvard, a rebel with whom he will have a violentand ambiguousphysical encounter; a warring married couple, Richard and Joan Maple, try and try again to find solace in sex; and Henry Bech, an unprolific American writer publicizing...

W połowie lat siedemdziesiątych w Ameryce ogarniętej rewolucją seksualną pastor Tom Marshfield, choć żonaty, cudzołoży bez umiaru. Gdy sprawa wychodzi na jaw i w parafii wybucha skandal, trafia do specjalnego ośrodka dla „upadłych” księży. Przez miesiąc ma za zadanie – w ramach terapii – codziennie prowadzić zapiski. I...

A NovelToward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcees 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...

The Maples Stories';The Maples stories trace the decline and fall of a marriage,' writes the author in his Foreword, a marriage that is threatened early on by the temptations of infidelity (';Snowing in Greenwich Village') and that ends in a midlife divorce (';Here Come the Maples'). ';They also illumine a history...

And Other StoriesWhen this classic collection of stories first appearedin 1962, on the author's thirtieth birthdayArthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: ';Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise...