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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... Short Stories , " and " The Flamingo - Pink Decade . " THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE : " A Childhood Transgression . " THE NEW YORK TIMES : " The Gentlemen of Summer . " THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES : " On the Edge of the Post - Human " and ...
... Short Stories , " and " The Flamingo - Pink Decade . " THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE : " A Childhood Transgression . " THE NEW YORK TIMES : " The Gentlemen of Summer . " THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES : " On the Edge of the Post - Human " and ...
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... Short Stories 1984 178 To Writers at Work : The Paris Review Interviews , edited by George Plimpton 187 To Writers on Writers , compiled by Graham Tarrant 194 To Heroes and Anti - Heroes , photographs by members xiv : CONTENTS.
... Short Stories 1984 178 To Writers at Work : The Paris Review Interviews , edited by George Plimpton 187 To Writers on Writers , compiled by Graham Tarrant 194 To Heroes and Anti - Heroes , photographs by members xiv : CONTENTS.
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... Short Stories NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES 214 231 242 250 252 253 260 268 279 287 Recruiting Raw Nerves Doctorpor Excellent Humbug The Good Book as Cookbook Him and Who ? Mayhem at the Hospital Tummy Trouble in Tinseltown Soap and ...
... Short Stories NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES 214 231 242 250 252 253 260 268 279 287 Recruiting Raw Nerves Doctorpor Excellent Humbug The Good Book as Cookbook Him and Who ? Mayhem at the Hospital Tummy Trouble in Tinseltown Soap and ...
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... short stories to the Japanese , and my poems to the French with an agreeable sensation of hiding behind a foreign language , as when in my escapades as a cultural ambassador I spoke through a bilingual intermediary . Introducing works ...
... short stories to the Japanese , and my poems to the French with an agreeable sensation of hiding behind a foreign language , as when in my escapades as a cultural ambassador I spoke through a bilingual intermediary . Introducing works ...
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... short stories a year I could sup- port a family that had come , by 1960 , to include four children . Our first house , not a small one , cost $ 18,500 ; our next , a rather grand one , in 1970 , what now seems a paltry $ 80,000 . I was ...
... short stories a year I could sup- port a family that had come , by 1960 , to include four children . Our first house , not a small one , cost $ 18,500 ; our next , a rather grand one , in 1970 , what now seems a paltry $ 80,000 . I was ...
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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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