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Critical Essays On John Updike
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Author : William R. Macnaughton
language : en
Publisher: Boston : G.K. Hall
Release Date : 1982
Critical Essays On John Updike written by William R. Macnaughton and has been published by Boston : G.K. Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of reviews and essays that trace the critical reputation of Updike's literary career.
John Updike
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Author : David Thorburn
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1979
John Updike written by David Thorburn and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of critical essays examining individual texts as well as more general accounts of the religious and sexual themes that run through his fiction.
More Matter
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-02-07
More Matter written by John Updike and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Literary Collections categories.
More Matter is a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections. From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England, More Matter is a lively discussion on contemporary art, issues and people, told from the inimitable perspective of Pulitzer prizewinner John Updike. Wide ranging, incisive, witty and always superbly written, it has something to say about almost everyone - from Graham Greene to Bill Gates to Mickey Mouse - and everything - from sexual politics to spiritual matters to unopenable packages. It provides any number of intimate glimpses into how this remarkable mind works. Praise for More Matter: 'Unlike most journalism, Updike's occasional writing is so exquisite as to repay multiple readings' Publishers Weekly 'More Matter attests to Mr. Updike's remarkable versatility and to his ardent drive to turn all his observations into glittering, gossamer prose. . . . In his strongest pieces, Mr. Updike's awesome pictorial powers of description combine with a rigorous, searching intelligence to produce essays of enormous tactile power and conviction' New York Times 'More Matter will leave even his closest followers amazed. . . . Updike can write about anything, in any form and at any length, and do it with intelligence and knowledge and grace and agility and wit-and oh, the prose' Pittsburgh Tribune Review John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
Hugging The Shore
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1984
Hugging The Shore written by John Updike and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, Hugging the Shore is an enormously intelligent, witty collection of essays by John Updike. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist sheds keen light on everything from the first kiss to going barefoot to the world's greatest writers. First time in paper.
Odd Jobs
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1991
Odd Jobs written by John Updike and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
Updike's fourth volume of nonfictional prose and critique of other authors. Includes section of comments on his own works and endeavors.
Due Considerations
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2007-10-23
Due Considerations written by John Updike and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-23 with Literary Collections categories.
John Updike’s sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading “General Considerations,” books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less autobiographical pieces—reminiscences, friendly forewords, comments on the author’s own recent works, responses to probing questions. In between, many books are considered, some in introductions—to such classics as Walden, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Mabinogion—and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Wizard of Oz. Contemporary American and English writers—Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan—receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk. In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the “unsinkable career” of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and Søren Kierkegaard. Reading Due Considerations is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports with a witty, sensitive, and articulate guide aboard—a voyage not to be missed.
Picked Up Pieces
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Picked Up Pieces written by John Updike and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Literary Collections categories.
A collection of the author's non-fiction prose pieces and reviews.
Still Looking
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12
Still Looking written by John Updike and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12 with categories.
Higher Gossip
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Higher Gossip written by John Updike and has been published by Random House Trade Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Here is the collection of nonfiction pieces that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009. It opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic. It concludes with a moving meditation on a world without religion, without art, and on the difficulties of faith in a disbelieving age. In between are pieces on Peanuts, Mars, and the songs of Cole Porter, a pageant of scenes from early Massachusetts, and a good deal of Updikean table talk. At the heart of the volume are dozens of book reviews from The New Yorker and illustrated art writings from The New York Review of Books. Updike’s criticism is gossip of the highest sort. We will not hear the likes of it again.
Assorted Prose
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Author : John Updike
language : en
Publisher: New York : Knopf
Release Date : 1965
Assorted Prose written by John Updike and has been published by New York : Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Fiction categories.
Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing.