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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... hands over to lawyers a proportion of power and treasure unmatched in any other nation . Ours is an invented country , a ... hand they are never so coarse .... Among a democratic people manners ... form , as it were , a light and loosely ...
... hands over to lawyers a proportion of power and treasure unmatched in any other nation . Ours is an invented country , a ... hand they are never so coarse .... Among a democratic people manners ... form , as it were , a light and loosely ...
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... hand . There is a certain relief in knowing how little remains in your con- trol , how little remains to be proved . In the meantime , that inestimable treasure , that perpetual present in which life is lived 24 : MATTERS OF STATE.
... hand . There is a certain relief in knowing how little remains in your con- trol , how little remains to be proved . In the meantime , that inestimable treasure , that perpetual present in which life is lived 24 : MATTERS OF STATE.
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... hands , which hold the pen or tap the keyboard . His body has been , not himself exactly , but a close pal , pot - bellied and balding like most of his other pals now . A man ... hand and beginning the one - WOMEN DANCING : 33 Women Dancing.
... hands , which hold the pen or tap the keyboard . His body has been , not himself exactly , but a close pal , pot - bellied and balding like most of his other pals now . A man ... hand and beginning the one - WOMEN DANCING : 33 Women Dancing.
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. I remember taking Naomi's hand and beginning the one - step , fever- ish with ... hands were as smooth as new leaves . She quickly got the knack of dancing with me , awkward as I was , and adapted herself ...
Essays and Criticism John Updike. I remember taking Naomi's hand and beginning the one - step , fever- ish with ... hands were as smooth as new leaves . She quickly got the knack of dancing with me , awkward as I was , and adapted herself ...
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... hand in hand . Look at go - go , exotic , and belly dancers . Dancing is both self - exhibition and self - exploration . Until the twist came along in 1960 , it was hard to see your female part- ner . She was a piece of waved hair , a ...
... hand in hand . Look at go - go , exotic , and belly dancers . Dancing is both self - exhibition and self - exploration . Until the twist came along in 1960 , it was hard to see your female part- ner . She was a piece of waved hair , a ...
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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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