Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées — Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie — have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: When the three witches — now old, remarried and widowed — decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years before have gone.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 579 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 703) Аннотация: Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading General Considerations, books, poker, cars, and the American libido.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in the evening and adultery all year round.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She’s married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he’s also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who’s been sleeping with Richard... As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they’ve been letting on. And that no one knows…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The air of Eastwick breeds witches — women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It's 1959 and Harry Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence — stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be — at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life — and home — comes Jill, an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though — it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 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 history cuaght up…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 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.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Middle-aged Harry Angstrom, chief sales representative of a Toyota dealership, copes with inflation, governmental ineffectiveness, the return of his prodigal son, and a chance encounter with an old girlfriend, in Rabbit Is Rich, while in Rabbit at Rest, Harry «Rabbit» Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The first and second novels in John Updike's acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT, RUN Brilliant and poignant... By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit's sorrow his and out own.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A TOUCHING, ELEGIAC COLLECTION OF STORIES about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years, about the heart and other organs...works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation — his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look at the makings of an American writer — and of an American man. Here is Updike on his childhood, on ailments both horrible (psoriasis) and hilarious (his experiences at…