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The Best American Short Stories 1993

By: Erdrich, Louise; Kenison, Katrina; Updike, John; Gaitskill, Mary; Munro, Alice; Woiwode, Larry; Fulton, Alice; Ellison, Harlan; Shapiro, Jane; Power, Susan; Jones, Thom; Earley, Tony; Peery, Janet; Nelson, Antonya; Dixon, Stephen; Lee, Andrea; Scott, Joa

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1993

Edition: 1st Printing

Seller ID: 2307799

ISBN: 0395636272

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Lightly rubbed. 1993 Trade Paperback. 352 pp. Includes: Foreword; Introduction by Louise Erdrich; Playing with Dynamite by John Updike; The Girl on the Plane by Mary Gaitskill; A Real Life by Alice Munro; Silent Passengers by Larry Woiwode; Queen Wintergreen by Alice Fulton; The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus by Harlan Ellison; Poltergeists by Jane Shapiro; Red Moccassins by Susan Power; I Want to Live! by Thom Jones; Charlotte by Tony Earley; What the Thunder Said by Janet Perry; Naked Ladies by Antonya Nelson; Man, Woman and Boy by Stephen Dixon; Winter Barley by Andrea Lee...
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Rabbit Redux: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2269290

ISBN: 039447273X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor tear along top edge of jacket rear near spine, jacket very faintly toned. Ink stamp on bottom page ridge, top page ridge very faintly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 406 pp. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters -- finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complic...
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Seek My Face

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2273069

ISBN: 0375414908

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A bit smoky. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 276 pp. Couched in the form of a day-long conversation between 79-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, living in seclusion in Vermont, and a chic young interviewer from New York, Updike's 20th novel is an ambitious attempt to capture the moment when America for the first time ever... led world art.
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Gertrude and Claudius

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 2000

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2275658

ISBN: 0375409084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. NEW. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, 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 bro...
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2276061

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition. Faint crease along front jacket edge, otherwise an excellent copy. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so.
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Brazil: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2276293

ISBN: 0679430717

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First trade edition. Light stain on jacket base, page ridges lightly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. 8vo. They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of t...
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The Rabbit Tetralogy: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $950.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books: 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2295375

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First editions. Rabbit, Run includes first state jacket with 16-line blurb on front flap. First volume: jacket lightly rubbed with minimal loss from corners, ink initials on front endpaper. Second volume: front free endpaper removed. Third volume: publisher stamp on page base, faint crease on front jacket flap. 1960 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Four hardcover volumes. 307, [3]; 406, [2]; 467, [5]; 512, [6] pp. 8vo. The saga of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom. Books three and four in the series both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1982 and 1990). Because the publication...
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2296329

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus (first trade edition, following Franklin Library edition). Quarter inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, minor tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Remainder mark on page base, top page ridge very lightly bumped. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so.
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2296442

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Rear jacket panel creased, light general wear to jacket. Remainder mark, ink stamp on title page. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. 8vo. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so.
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S.: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304985

ISBN: 0394568354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Tiny spot on top edge. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to subdue ego and achieve moksha (salvation, release from illusion). S. details her adventures in letters and tapes dispatched to her husband, her daughter, her brother, her dentist, her hairdresser, and he...
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Hoping for a Hoopoe: Poems [British title of the work originally published as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures]

By: Updike, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd.: 1959

Edition: First UK Edition

Seller ID: 2304988

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First UK edition. Jacket price clipped, edges lightly foxed. 1959 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 81 pp. Author's first book, originally published in the United States as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. This edition includes an author's note not included in the American edition. CONTENTS: Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums; Ex-Basketball Player; Player Piano; Shipbored; An Ode; The Clan; Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles are Cracked and Crooked; The Population of Argentina; Even Egrets Err; Scenic; Tune, in American Type; Lament, for Cocoa; Rec...
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Problems and Other Stories

By: Updike, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304992

ISBN: 0394507053

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket price clipped, edges lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned. 1979 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. In this midcareer collection of twenty-three short stories, John Updike tackles such problems as separation, divorce, and remarriage, parents and children, guns and prostitution, leprosy, swooning, suffocation, and guilt. His self-seeking heroes tend to be forty; his heroines are asleep, seductive, longing, or reproachful. None of these characters is innocent, and all are looking vainly for the road back to an imagined Paradise. Pain and comedy ...
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The Music School: Short Stories

By: Updike, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1966

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304993

ISBN: 0394437276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Razor cut on front jacket edge, quarter inch closed jacket tear on rear edge, edges faintly foxed. 1966 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 259 pp. The 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 violent--and ambiguous--physical 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 himself far from home, enjoys a moment of improbable, poignant, untranslatable ...
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The Centaur: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304994

ISBN: 0394418816

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Edges foxed, jacket rubbed with tape repairs on reverse. 1963 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 302 pp. 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 one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.
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Rabbit at Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 2304995

ISBN: 0394588150

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 512 pp. Updike's fourth and final Rabbit novel, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 - the second in the series to do so. In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry Rabbit Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through the winter, spring, and s...
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Rabbit Redux

By: Updike, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304998

ISBN: 039447273X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. A few light spots on jacket, edges foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 406 pp. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters -- finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.
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Of the Farm

By: Updike, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2305002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition in first state jacket ($3.95 price, 11/65 code on flap). Edges lightly foxed. 1965 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 173 pp. In this novel, Joey Robinson, a thirty-five-year-old New Yorker, describes a visit he makes, with his second wife and eleven-year-old stepson, to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up and where his aging mother now lives alone. For three days, a quartet of voices explores the air, making confessions, seeking alignments, quarreling, pleading, and pardoning. They are not entirely alone: ghosts (fathers, lovers, children) press upon th...
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Rabbit Redux

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2305278

ISBN: 039447273X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light stain along bottom edge of jacket, half-inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket lightly toned. A few very minor stains on top page ridge, page ridge very faintly foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 406 pp. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom -- known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters -- finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Jani...
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Buchanan Dying: A Play

By: Updike, John

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1974

Edition: First UK Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2305591

ISBN: 0233965645

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First UK edition. Signed by author with inscription, John, best wishes. Edges foxed, jacket reverse lighlty foxed, jacket price clipped. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 262 pp. In a play meant to be read, James Buchanan, 15th President of the U.S., relives his political and private past.--goodreads
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Marry Me (The First Edition Society)

By: Updike, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304820

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

First edition. Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 347 pp. Dark green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Barbara Fox. As in Updike's 1968 Couples, two married householdsin this case, the Conants and the Mathiasesmeet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends.
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Rabbit, Run

By: Updike, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2304824

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Publisher's book support laid in. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 342 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Book one (of four) in the Rabbit series. 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 s...
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Bech is Back

By: Updike, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304987

ISBN: 0394528069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 1/2 inch closed jacket tear, light crease on front jacket flap corner, edges lightly foxed. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The renowned Henry Bech is now fifty years old. In this wonderful classic novel, Bech reflects on his fame, travels the world, marries an Episcopalian divorce from Westchester, and--surprise to all--writes a book that becomes a runaway bestseller. If you've never read Updike before, there's no better place to start. If you've read him for years, you'll be delightfully reminded of John Updike's rightful place in the pan...
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Midpoint and Other Poems

By: Updike, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2304989

ISBN: 0394403835

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1969 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 98 pp. In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth yearat midpoint. These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. The remainder of the volume is a six years harvest of light verse ...
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A Month of Sundays: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1975

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2304990

ISBN: 0394495519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Spine leans very slightly forward, edges lightly foxed. 1975 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 228 pp. In this antic riff on Hawthornes Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedicated to rest, recreation, and spiritual renewal, this fortyish serial fornicator is required to keep a journal whose thirty-one weekly entries constitute the book you now hold in your hand. In his wonderfully overwrought style he lays bare his soul and his past...
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Marry Me: A Novel

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1976

Edition: First Trade Edition

Seller ID: 2304991

ISBN: 039440856X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First trade edition. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 303, [5] pp. 8vo. As in Updike's 1968 Couples, two married householdsin this case, the Conants and the Mathiasesmeet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends.
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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

By: Updike, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1989

Edition: First Trade Edition

Seller ID: 2305003

ISBN: 039457222X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition. Jacket spine head very lighlty bumped. Page ridges very faintly toned. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 257 pp. John Updikes memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his foreword states, to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world. In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has...
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The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

By: Updike, John

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2305590

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition in first state jacket with 'two small children' on rear flap (this was later corrected to 'four children'). Edges and jacket flaps/reverse lightly foxed. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 82 pp. Author's first book. Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form. The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry could be m...
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The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

By: Updike, John

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2305595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition in first state jacket with 'two small children' on rear flap (this was later corrected to 'four children'). Last gathering of pages slightly foxed on fore edge, rear jacket panel faintly soiled. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 82 pp. Author's first book. Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form. The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a w...
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July [Signed Broadside]

By: Updike, John

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1993

Edition: Limited Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2305723

Binding: Single Sheet

Condition: Near Fine

Signed without inscription on top right portion. Rolled in cardboard tube. 1993 Single Sheet. We have more books available by this author!. 22 3/4 x 10. Thick cream paper stock with a background design. This 37-line poem was originally published in The New Yorker in 1992, Updike's poem July is here printed as a broadside in conjunction with the publication of his Collected Poems: 1953-1993. These broadsides were designed to be distributed to booksellers as promotional items. Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that I began as a writer of light verse, and have tri...
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Collected Poems: 1953-1993

By: Updike, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf: 1995

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 2306772

ISBN: 0679762043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

3rd printing. Faint stains to fore edge. 1995 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, the thread backside of my lifes fading tapestry. An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiat...
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