"The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life."
“This isn’t writing. It is magic.”
- The New York Times Book Review on John Updike
This unmatched collection of 12 Signed Limited First Editions, personally hand signed by John Updike. Includes "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest", that received the Pulitzer Prize, along with the 1984 best seller "The Witches of Eastwick" that was made into a movie.
A collection of 12 Signed Limited Edition by the famous American author and poet John Updike. All books are original in their respective slip cases, with original dust jackets. Published by Knopf Publishers. All books have been personally hand signed by John Updike directly onto the special signature limitation page.
All photos of actual books
Included in this incredible collection:
1. (1971) Rabbit Redux no. 221 of
350
2. (1981) Rabbit Is Rich, no. 112 of
350
3. (1990) Rabbit At Rest, no. 70 of
350
4. (1984) The Witches of Eastwick, no 232 of
350
5. (1975) Picked Up Pieces, no 149 of
250
6. (1977) Marry Me, no. 39 of
350
7. (1975) A Month of Sundays, no. 296 of
450
8. (1972) Museums And Women, no. 132 of
350
9. (1978) The Coup, no. 172 of
350
10. (1979) Problems, no. 311 of
350
11.(1970) Bech: A Book, no. 143 of
500
12. (1982) Bech Is Back, no. 273 of
500
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest received the Pulitzer Prize. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant
middle class,"
Updike is widely recognized for his careful craftsmanship and prolific
output, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story
collections, as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's
books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since 1954. The Widows of Eastwick, John Updike's sequel to the 1984 best seller The Witches of Eastwick, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2008.
CONDITION
Fine, Near fine. A bright clean copy. No markings, writings, or stamps. No attached bookplates or indication of any removed. Tight and square spine. Well cared for collection, protected from any potential damage. "Picked Up Pieces" spine lettering has faded due to light.
Notable Quotations
"Men are all heart and Women are all body. I don't know who has the brains. God maybe." (Rabbit, Run)
"The great thing about the dead, they make space." (Rabbit is Rich)
"Rabbit loves men, uncomplaining with their bellies and
cross-hatched red necks, embarrassed for what to talk about when the
game is over, whatever the game is. What a threadbare thing we make of
life! Yet what a marvelous thing the mind is, they can't make a machine
like it; and the body can do a thousand things there isn't a factory in
the world can duplicate the motion." (Rabbit is Rich)
"Fortune's hostage, heart's desire, a granddaughter. His. Another nail in his coffin. His." (Rabbit is Rich)
"Tell your mother, if she asks, that maybe we'll meet some other time. Under the pear trees, in Paradise." (Rabbit at Rest)
"Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot." (The Witches of Eastwick)
"We all dream, and we all stand aghast at the mouth of the caves of
our deaths; and this is our way in. Into the nether world." (The Witches of Eastwick)
"An Irish temper makes you appreciate Lutherans." (Terrorist)
"Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark." ("Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, 1960)
"Gods do not answer letters." ("Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, 1960)
"He had met the little death that awaits athletes. He had retired." ("Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, 1960)
"My mother had dreams of being a writer and I used to see her type
in the front room. The front room is also where I would go when I was
sick so I would sit there and watch her." (2004 interview with Academy
of Achievement (source: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/upd0int-1))
"Black is a shade of brown. So is white, if you look." (Brazil)
"Freedom is a blanket which, pulled up to the chin, uncovers the feet." (The Coup)
"Fame is a mask that eats into the face." (Self-Consciousness)
"Masturbation! Thou saving grace note upon the baffled chord of self. (A Month of Sundays)
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." ("How To Love America (And Leave It At The Same Time)" [Problems And Other Stories])
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