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John Updike: The Widdows of Eastwick

Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: 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.

John Updike: Rabbit at Rest

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his…

John Updike: Brazil

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Beach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west....

John Updike: Rabbit Redux

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be — at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life — and home — comes Jill, an…

John Updike: Rabbit is Rich

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though — it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it…