Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Updike, John (1932-2009)
Rubrique de classement : [Oeuvres choisies (anglais). 2021]
Titre(s) : Novels 1978-1984 [Texte imprimé] / John Updike ; Christopher Carduff, editor
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : Novels / John Updike
Publication : New York : Library of America, 2021
Description matérielle : 1017 pages ; 21 cm
Collection : The library of America ; 339
Lien à la collection : The library of America
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references. - Rabbit is Rich ; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1982 (Rabbit is Rich ; National Book
Award for Fiction, 1982 (Rabbit is Rich ; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction,
1981. - Réunit : "The coup" ; "Rabbit is rich" ; "The witches of Eastwick"
The third volume in our five-volume selected edition of the novels of John Updike
includes three books: The Coup, one of Updike's most outlandish satires, set in a
fictional African nation; Rabbit Is Rich, the third, and many say best, novel starring
his most famous protagonist; and the wildly popular The Witches of Eastwick, which
was memorably adapted in the film starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon,
and Jack Nicholson. In The Coup, a surprising departure from his prior novels, Updike
stages a withering take down of an array of targets, from American materialism and
its baleful effects on the developing world to the follies of Cold War geopolitics
and the fevered megalomania of the dictatorial mind. In Rabbit Is Rich, the third
installment of the Rabbit tetralogy, we meet up with Harry Angstrom, now 46, dealing
as best he can with the challenges and cares of midlife, a time when "you are carrying
the world in a sense and yet it seems more out of control than ever." In The Witches
of Eastwick, Updike imagines a small New England town possessed by magic--at least
as practiced by the female trio at its center who, freed from the burdens of their
marriages, make common cause and unleash their whimsical witchcraft on Eastwick's
narrow-minded townspeople
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Carduff, Christopher (1956-....). Éditeur scientifique
Indice(s) Dewey :
813.54 (23e éd.) = Roman américain de langue anglaise - 1945-1999 [oeuvre]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781598536775. - ISBN 159853677X (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47126649g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47126649
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The coup -- ; Rabbit is rich -- ; The witches of Eastwick
