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Explore a curated list of books by acclaimed authors John Updike, Anne Tyler, Stephen King, and Philip Roth. Discover literary masterpieces and must-read novels from these iconic writers.
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Rabbit Is Rich
by John Updike
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ⢠The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returnsâfrom one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. The hero of John Updikeâs Rabbit, Run, ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at lastâuntil his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbitâs middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
âA lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.ââKansas City Star Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of hisâor any otherâgeneration. Its hero is Harry âRabbitâ Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family dutyâeven, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a rulerâs edge.
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Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ⢠One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry âRabbitâ Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live. âBrilliant . . . the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.ââThe Washington Post Book World Rabbitâs 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 summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.
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The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
âJohn Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.ââThe New York Times Book Review Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcĂŠes 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 columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwickâand through the even darker fantasies of the townâs collective psyche. âA great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.ââThe Philadelphia Inquirer âVintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.ââNewsday
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
Through every family run memories which bind it together, despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Now as Pearl lies dying, stifly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it its secrets.
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The Accidental Tourist
by Anne Tyler
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠From the beloved Pulitzer Prizeâwinning authorâan irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild oneâs life after unspeakable tragedy Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Maconâs best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tylerâs talents for making charactersâand their relationshipsâfeel both real and magical. âIncandescent, heartbreaking, exhilaratingâŚOne cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.â âThe Washington Post
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Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
While driving to the funeral of a friend, a couple married twenty-eight years examine the expectations and disappointments of their marriage.
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The Amateur Marriage
by Anne Tyler
From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage--and its consequences, spanning three generations. They seemed like the perfect couple--young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty minutes away), walked into his mother's grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, judgmental, proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds, equally ignorant at the start, seemed to grow more seasoned, Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves, almost thirty years later, loving, instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan, whom they rescue from Haight-Ashbury, they still cannot bridge their deep-rooted differences. Flighty Pauline clings to the notion that the rifts can always be patched. To the unyielding Michael, they become unbearable. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more fully into the complex entanglements of family life in this wise, embracing, and deeply perceptive novel. "From the Hardcoveredition.
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The Stand
by Stephen King
Horrific disaster as a plague virus sweeps the U.S., leaving only a handful of survivors.
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It
by Stephen King
A group of teenagers stumbles upon an evil force that will eventually draw them all back to Derry, Maine, for a final showdown. Reissue.
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The Dark Tower
by Stephen King
Presents the first four volumes in the epic series featuring the quest of Roland Deschain of Gilead to find the dark tower.
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Christine
by Stephen King
Arnie Cunningham, a bookish and bullied high school senior, becomes obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth named Christine, which he is restoring.
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The Shining
by Stephen King
This inspiring and compelling book has won ten awards to date, including Honorable Mentions at the December 2012 New England and London Book Festivals, October 2012 Southern California Book Festival and June 2012 New York Book Festival in the category of Spiritual books; is winner of the North American Bookdealers Ě Exchange (NABE) Pinnacle Award for âInspirationalâ books in Spring 2011; and has become a much sought-after reference for people seeking to affect positive change around the globe. Readers are: * taught how to recognize, harness and channel positive personal power for the betterment of themselves, their loved ones, associates and our universe * provided an invaluable checklist of great leadership behaviors and attitudes * taught how to recognize controlling behaviors of others and the negative patterns in society * inspired to be the best they can be * compelled to ask themselves "why am I here; what good can I do for humanity?" * taught how to recognize a self-limiting posture so they can improve their level of self-awareness......to the point of real self-intelligence and, by so doing, break free of lifeâs boxes, labels and restrictions * encouraged to erase their fears, trust their abilities and remove their baggage........and take the journey to empowerment and fulfilment in everything they do!
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Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.
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Night Shift
by Stephen King
Stephen Kingâs first collection of short stories, originally published in 1978, showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune). Night Shift is the inspiration for over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn , Chapelwaite, and Lawnmower Man. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (âGraveyard Shiftâ); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (âNight Surf,â the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (âThe Lawnmower Manâ); unsettling children from the heartland (âChildren of the Cornâ); a smoker who will try anything to stop (âQuitters, Inc.â); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (âGray Matterâ); and many more shadows and visions that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.
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The Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King
In the kingdom of Delain, a young prince must struggle against powerful forces to gain his rightful inheritance.
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Skeleton Crew
by Stephen King
Who could imagineâŚ? In this brilliant collection of twenty-two stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagineâŚ. A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against unholy destructionâŚa trip to the attic turns into a journey to hellâŚa woman driver finds a very scary shortcut to paradiseâŚan idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evilâŚand a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. Features the novella âThe MistââNow a major motion picture
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The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ⢠The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of American Pastoral delivers âa master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). One of the New York Timesâs 100 Best Books of the 21st Century It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ⢠NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth centuryâa compulsively readable elegy for Americaâs promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roth's most powerful novels ever" (The New York Times). Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece, featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows up in the booming postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory, and move into a stone house in the idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenagerâa teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of domestic terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, American Pastoral gives us Philip Roth at the height of his powers.
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The Counterlife
by Philip Roth
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ⢠A stunning novel about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the book's evocative landscapes, familiar and foreign, is the miind of the novelist Nathan Zuckerman. His is the skeptical, enveloping intelligence that calculates the price that's paid in the struggle to change personal fortune and reshape history, whether in a dentist's office in suburban New Jersey, or in a tradition-bound English Village in Gloucestershire, or in a church in London's West End, or in a tiny desert settlement in Israel's occupied West Bank.
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
For the first time in paperback, here is the bold and utterly outrageous new novel of a libidinous 64-year-old curmudgeon by the National Book Award winner, Philip Roth.
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The Great American Novel
by Philip Roth
From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of American Pastoralâa richly imagined novel featuring Americaâs only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers âshameless comic extravaganceâŚ. Roth gleefully exploits our readiness to let baseball stand for America itself" (The New York Times). Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of themâor of the homeless baseball team the Ruppert Mundysâit's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, wickedly satiric novel, Roth turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picaresque farce, replete with heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Zuckerman Unbound
by Philip Roth
A âmasterfulâ novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of American Pastoral tells the story of a bestselling writer whose life is falling apartâall because of his great good fortune. Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), but he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisers, and sidewalk literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech. In Zuckerman Unbound, the notorious novelist Nathan Zuckerman retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother.
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