The Women Who Got Away [Import] [Paperback]

John Updike (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141032936
• ISBN-13: 978-0141032931
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,414,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 lived in Massachusetts. He was the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. John Updike died on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Jewel, October 30, 2010

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This review is from: Licks of Love (Paperback)

I just finished this jewel. "Rabbit Remembered" should be,in my opinion, required reading in all college English 101 courses. Updike's mastery of the English language, is as usual, breath-taking. The story can stand alone, but to have read at least "Rabbit,Run" would make it even more juicy, as many of the characters are resurrected. The story of peoples' lives, in all their mundane desperateness, aspirations, seeming successes and ultimate futility makes this a most fitting swan song to one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. I LOVED IT!!!