Updike John Illustrated Barbara Fox (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. illustrated by Barbara Fox (illustrator). bound in full green leather, gilt spine, 4 raised bands,moire end papers, all edges gilt, silk page marker, 347 pages : illustrations, 8 pp "Notes from the Author" laid-in, A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias--both married to other people--pursue a love affair with one another over the course of the summer of 1962, while vacillating between the old and new concepts of morality.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Fox, Barbara (illustrator). Limited First Edition. White paper label covers bookplate on front blank page. ; Inscribed by Updike on the half-title page. ; "Limited first edition . Privately printed for members of The First Edition Society.".

Hard Cover. No Jacket. Limited. HBNo dJ issued, Green decorated Leather with Gold Gilt, stated 1st limited edition, 1976,with ribbon marker, NF, NODJ.

First edition of "the gentlest book Updike has written" (Kirkus Reviews), privately printed exclusively for Members of the First Edition Society. Octavo, original publisher's full leather elaborately stamped in gilt, moire silk endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the limitation page, "For Erica + Ken warm regards, John." The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movementâs redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: âAt the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexualâ"and brought all those things together⦠What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.â The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In fine condition. "This understatement, this unwavering vision fixed on only four characters, is a part of what makes the story so effective. Updike's best fiction has always been his most narrowly focused; in this novel the plot is directâ"complex without becoming complicated by symbols thrashing obtrusively just behind the canvasâ"and refreshingly free from the portentousness that has marred several of his most ambitious novels. 'Marry Me' is the best written and least self-conscious of Updike's longer fiction; it contains his most sophisticated and sympathetic portraits of women. It is quite simply, Updike's best novel yet. I can't believe that anyone married or divorced could read it without being moved" (Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek),