John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

When historian Alfred "Alf" Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own...

„Unter dem Astronautenmond“ von Kai Molvig ist ein Roman, der in einer dystopischen Zukunft spielt. Die Geschichte folgt der Protagonistin Lena, die in einer Welt lebt, in der die Menschheit den Mond kolonisiert hat. Die Erde ist durch...

«Die Rabbitt-Tetralogie ist Updikes Meisterwerk und wird gewiss sein Denkmal werden.»(Ian McEwan, Die literarische Welt)Harry Angstrom ist dick geworden, aber er spielt noch Golf, seine Frau Janice, nicht bereit, schon aus dem aktiven...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

John Updike: Novels 1968-1975 (loa #326) von Updike, John

In the Beauty of the Lilies begins in 1910 and traces God's relation to four generations of American seekers, beginning with Clarence Wilmot, a clergyman in Paterson, New Jersey. He loses his faith but finds solace at the movies, respite...

"Rabbit, Run" ist ein Roman von John Updike, der das Leben von Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, einem ehemaligen Highschool-Basketballstar in den mittleren Jahren seines Lebens, verfolgt. Rabbit steckt in einer unglücklichen Ehe mit seiner...

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of...

Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband's body is cold. But in this imaginative "prequel"...