Author: John UpdikePublisher:
ISBN: 9781556280078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A & P
Author: John UpdikePublisher:
ISBN: 9781556280078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The Centaur
Author: John UpdikePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 067964587X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell’s fifteen-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author’s remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron’s agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is “a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son.”
AP* U.S. History Review and Study Guide for American Pageant 14th edition
Author: Mill Hill BooksPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1458345742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
AP* U.S. History Review and Study Guide for American Pageant 12th edition
Author: Mill Hill BooksPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1458345351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Gorse is Not People
Author: Janet FramePublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742532535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
'Frame . . . is a master . . . All [stories] overflow with dazzling observation and unforgettable metaphor . . . A powerful collection.' —Kirkus 'This is a gem of a book, or rather a string of gems, each uniquely coloured, cut and crafted.' —Landfall This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Gorse is Not People. The title story caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, the NZ Listener, the New Zealand School Journal, Landfall and The New Yorker over the years, and one otherwise unpublished piece, 'The Gravy Boat', was read aloud by Frame for a radio broadcast in 1953. In these stories readers will recognise familiar themes, scenes, characters and locations from Frame's writing and life, and each offers a fresh fictional transformation that will captivate and absorb.
Pigeon Feathers
Author: John UpdikePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679645764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur 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 recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike’s fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight.”
The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature
Author: Laurie E. RozakisPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028633787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Looks at American authors from Washington Irving to John Updike and provides brief biographical sketches, excerpts and summaries of major works, and explanations of major literary movements
The Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature
Author: Jay StevensonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592576562
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Haymeadow
Author: Gary PaulsenPublisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440409233
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep. John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one dog's feet get cut. Through it all he must rely on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and talents to survive this summer in the haymeadow.
Rabbit Redux
Author: John UpdikePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307744086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.