More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19 февр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 928 In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.” |
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... come true . It still is . Let's face it , gentle reader : I set out to be a magazine writer , a word- smith as the profession ... comes from beyond one's own language - from a German , French , Brazilian , or Japanese publication - the ...
... come true . It still is . Let's face it , gentle reader : I set out to be a magazine writer , a word- smith as the profession ... comes from beyond one's own language - from a German , French , Brazilian , or Japanese publication - the ...
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... comes up in a discussion of the conformity and tight loyalties of Japanese life : " Japanese have a different kind of freedom - a freedom rooted in security , a low crime rate , a sense of belonging that seems to have vanished from many ...
... comes up in a discussion of the conformity and tight loyalties of Japanese life : " Japanese have a different kind of freedom - a freedom rooted in security , a low crime rate , a sense of belonging that seems to have vanished from many ...
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... come to you in the car driving home , and the errand ( taking the car to get its inspection sticker , say ) will ... comes up without them . Physical deterioration : you boomers have jogged and bench - pressed and done yoga until you ...
... come to you in the car driving home , and the errand ( taking the car to get its inspection sticker , say ) will ... comes up without them . Physical deterioration : you boomers have jogged and bench - pressed and done yoga until you ...
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... comes in many flavors , and there is , believe it or not , an over - fifty flavor . The majority of your decisions , willy - nilly , for good or bad , are behind you . You have rough - hewn your fates ; now self- preservation and a ...
... comes in many flavors , and there is , believe it or not , an over - fifty flavor . The majority of your decisions , willy - nilly , for good or bad , are behind you . You have rough - hewn your fates ; now self- preservation and a ...
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... comes natu- rally . In the meantime , our venery , as blessed by Freud , feels inextricably bound up with our vitality and even our virtue , as well as our vanity and , in love's cause , occasional villainy . It does seem hard that ...
... comes natu- rally . In the meantime , our venery , as blessed by Freud , feels inextricably bound up with our vitality and even our virtue , as well as our vanity and , in love's cause , occasional villainy . It does seem hard that ...
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THE BURGLAR ALARM 220 | 72 |
THE GLITTERING CITY | 79 |
GEOGRAPHICAL CALENDRICAL TOPICAL | 97 |
Babies by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen | 684 |
Updike and I | 757 |
Introduction to SelfSelected Stories | 767 |
Foreword to Brother Grasshopper | 773 |
Note on My Father on the Verge of Disgrace | 776 |
Note for an Exhibit of New Yorker Cartoons | 787 |
Christmas Cards | 797 |
Reflections on Radio | 803 |
INTRODUCTIONS | 139 |
AMERICAN PAST MASTERS | 214 |
PHOTOS | 266 |
NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES | 291 |
OVERSEAS | 338 |
OTHER CONTINENTS | 397 |
MEDLEYS | 434 |
THINGS AS THEY | 571 |
MOVIES | 641 |
Accepting the Bobst Award | 810 |
Introduction to the Easton Press Edition of the Rabbit Novels | 816 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition of Memories | 825 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition | 832 |
Foreword to the French Translation of Facing Nature | 838 |
Index | 857 |
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