New Releases by John Updike

Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993.

John Updike''s sixteenth novel takes place in a stylized Brazil where almost anything is possible, if you are young and in love. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year-old black child of the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach; their flight into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil''s wild west. Privation, violence, captivity, and reversals of fortune afflict them; his mother curses them, her father harries them with hirelings, and neither lover is absolutely faithful. Yet Tristao and Isabel hold to the faith that each is the other''s fate for life, as they pass - in Shakespeare''s phrase - "through nature to eternity." Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-Sixties to the late Eighties, Brazil surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence.

Updike''s personal look at art--both classic and contemporary--in a collection of twenty-three brilliant pieces. 200 illustrations, 150 in color.

A born-again computer whiz kid bent on proving the existence of God on his computer meets a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who''d just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert''s wife -- and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings for a trashy teenage girl.

This selection of stories cover youth, marriage, and family life.