John Updike

Una sèrie de petites vinyetes iròniques, àcides, cíniques, que ens fan reflexionar des d’un punt de vista humorístic sobre dotze dels temes i els símbols centrals del Nadal: el Pare Noel, el ren, els

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.

«Hace gala de un increíble genio verbal, una inteligencia llena de talento y un sentido de la tragedia que su ingenio logra hacer soportable.» Time«Un escritor consumado ... Por el amor de Dios, lea

Estamos en 1962. La vida discurre con aparente tranquilidad en Greenwood, un suburbio de Connecticut que es la viva imagen del sueno americano: familias unidas, prosperas y felices, paseos por la playa y fiestas regadas de alcohol en bonitos jardines. Jerry Conant y Sally Mathias inician una relacion adultera y fantasean con contraer matrimonio, sin saber que sus respectivos conyuges, Ruth y Richard, tambien tienen una aventura.A lo largo de cinco capitulos simetricos, la prosa luminosa y mordaz de Updike narra los vaivenes de este cuadrado amoroso y hurga en la conciencia desgarrada de unos personajes atrapados entre el orden y el caos, la culpa y la redencion, el ideal de la paz familiar y el deseo sexual: Tal vez nuestro problema es que vivimos en el ocaso de la vieja moral, de modo que aun queda la suficiente moral para atormentarnos, pero no la suficiente para mantenernos presos.

New York advertising man brings his new family to visit the farm of his youth, thereby encountering ghosts of the past.

More than three decades have passed since the events described in "The Witches of Eastwick." Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie had each remarried and left town. Now all three are widowed and have returned to the Rhode Island seaside town in this long-awaited follow-up.

In his extraordinary and highly charged new novel, John Updike tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey, Terrorist traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. In beautiful prose, Updike dramatizes the logic of the fundamentalist terrorist - but also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions...

On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who defined their times. As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope interviewer and interviewee try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and time that lies between them. And subtly, as each comes to know the other, their relationship changes . . .

More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees 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 exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. And then, one summer, they decide to go back to Eastwick. The old Rhode Island seaside town where they once indulged in sensuous mischief still holds enchantment for the three, but it also holds memories, and there are those who remember them and wish them ill . . .

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 is one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.

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.

Starred Review. Ripped from the headlines doesn't begin to describe Updike's latest, a by-the-numbers novelization of the last five years' news reports on the dangers of home-grown terror that packs a gut punch. Ahmad Mulloy Ashmawy is 18 and attends Central High School in the New York metro area working class city of New Prospect, N.J. He is the son of an Egyptian exchange student who married a working-class Irish-American girl and then disappeared when Ahmad was three. Ahmad, disgusted by his mother's inability to get it together, is in the thrall of Shaikh Rashid, who runs a storefront mosque and preaches divine retribution for "devils," including the "Zionist dominated federal government." The list of devils is long: it includes Joryleen Grant, the wayward African-American girl with a heart of gold; Tylenol Jones, a black tough guy with whom Ahmad obliquely competes for Joryleen's attentions (which Ahmad eventually pays for); Jack Levy, a Central High guidance counselor who at 63 has seen enough failure, including his own, to last him a lifetime (and whose Jewishness plays a part in a manner unthinkable before 9/11); Jack's wife, Beth, as ineffectual and overweight (Updike is merciless on this) as she is oblivious; and Teresa Mulloy, a nurse's aide and Sunday painter as desperate for Jack's attention, when he takes on Ahmad's case, as Jack is for hers.