John Updike

Set against the backdrop of the late 1970s, Rabbit is Rich by John Updike continues the story of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a man who finds himself at a crossroads in life. No longer the restless youth of earlier novels, Rabbit has settled into middle age with all its trappings of comfort and success. He serves as the Chief Sales Representative...

Rabbit, Run marks its first time in Modern Classics. It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, once a high school sports superstar, finds himself going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence—stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son, and a futile job. With no way to fix...

The air of Eastwick breeds witches — women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra, and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio. This is Updike at his most mischievous. The Witches of Eastwick...

A stunningly sensuous novel from the bestselling John Updike, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Villages chronicles Owen Mackenzie's life story, which is rich with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is swiftly followed by his first betrayal, leading him into a series of affairs. Owen's pursuit of happiness, traversing a...

The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers – a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days. In the words of his contemporary, Philip Roth, John Updike was 'Our time's greatest man of letters – as brilliant a literary...

John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school. Now twenty-six, his life seems full of traps, the biggest being his pregnant wife and two-year-old son. He sets out to escape, but it's not clear if Rabbit is really following his heart or only chasing his...

New to PMC A Month of Sundays, Updike's seventh novel, concerns a month of seven days, a period of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield. He is sent west from his Midwestern church in disgrace.