John Updike
Terrorist
By: John Updike
John Updike aims to shape the pastiche portrait of the homegrown terrorist (a la Richard Reid, John Walker, even Timothy McVeigh) into something psychologically rich and artistically profound. A lesser writer would have stumbled into threadbare...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Discs: 1
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Terrorist
By: John Updike
The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Suspense
Version: Abridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Discs: 5
Publication Date: May 2007
Seek My Face
By: John Updike
John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been...
Published: Nov 2002
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Kathryn Walker
Discs: 8
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Villages
By: John Updike
John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between...
Published: Oct 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
Discs: 7
Publication Date: Oct 2004
The Witches of Eastwick
By: John Updike
BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a...
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Version: Unabridged
Publication Date: Oct 2008
The Widows of Eastwick
By: John Updike
More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcees–Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as...
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Version: Unabridged
Publication Date: Oct 2008
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series(R))
By: John Updike
Finding wonderful stories that you don't already know is one of this collection's great pleasures....Updike has made some surprising--even striking--selections, and in consequence this collection seems far less predictable than it might have...
Published: Oct 2000
Genre: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Lorrie Moore
Publication Date: Oct 2000
The John Updike Audio Collection
By: John Updike
The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories...
Published: Oct 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Jane Alexander
Discs: 5
Publication Date: Oct 2003
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
By: John Updike
John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Discs: 8
Publication Date: Jun 2009
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
By: John Updike
John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign...
Published: Jun 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Terrorist
By: John Updike
The ever-surprising John Updike's twenty-second novel is a brilliant contemporary fiction that will surely be counted as one of his most powerful. It tells of eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy and his devotion to Allah and the words of the Holy...
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Discs: 5
Publication Date: Jun 2006
The Maples Stories
By: John Updike
Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story,...
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Version: Unabridged
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Discs: 5
Publication Date: Feb 2012