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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... mind ; predator satiation being one of nature's survival techniques , I answer them again , and thus add a bit more super- fluous self - description to what we might laughingly call " the record . " Some repetition is inevitable , as ...
... mind ; predator satiation being one of nature's survival techniques , I answer them again , and thus add a bit more super- fluous self - description to what we might laughingly call " the record . " Some repetition is inevitable , as ...
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... mind's eye ) a psychedelic red , would wreck our Fifties marriages , shatter our faith in the anti - Communist crusade , and leave scarcely a hero stand- ing . What one decade - a bit of a fuddy - duddy , but no fool - had care- fully ...
... mind's eye ) a psychedelic red , would wreck our Fifties marriages , shatter our faith in the anti - Communist crusade , and leave scarcely a hero stand- ing . What one decade - a bit of a fuddy - duddy , but no fool - had care- fully ...
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... mind , which resists the siren call of the chasm with all its might ; the interior struggle knocks the wind from my lungs and tightens my scrotum and gives any trip to Europe , with its Alps , castle parapets , and gargoyled cathedral ...
... mind , which resists the siren call of the chasm with all its might ; the interior struggle knocks the wind from my lungs and tightens my scrotum and gives any trip to Europe , with its Alps , castle parapets , and gargoyled cathedral ...
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... careers in engineering or civil service . One of the girls , one of the bounciest , caught my eye and seemed to read the mind of this elderly mzungu ; her smile , already broad , broadened further , while her 36 : GENDER AND HEALTH.
... careers in engineering or civil service . One of the girls , one of the bounciest , caught my eye and seemed to read the mind of this elderly mzungu ; her smile , already broad , broadened further , while her 36 : GENDER AND HEALTH.
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... mind with healing , with normality . As early as chilly April , I would resort to the back dunes of the great beach ... minds . It was a carnival under the dome of heaven , every fair day . Sand and sea are superb babysitters . Even for ...
... mind with healing , with normality . As early as chilly April , I would resort to the back dunes of the great beach ... minds . It was a carnival under the dome of heaven , every fair day . Sand and sea are superb babysitters . Even for ...
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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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