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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... tion , 1979 ) . Bech Is Back ( 1982 ) Trust Me ( 1987 ) . The Afterlife ( 1994 ) . Bech at Bay ( 1998 ) Licks of Love ( 2000 ) . The Complete Henry Bech ( 2001 ) The Early Stories : 1953-1975 ( 2003 ) . My Father's Tears ( 2009 ) . The ...
... tion , 1979 ) . Bech Is Back ( 1982 ) Trust Me ( 1987 ) . The Afterlife ( 1994 ) . Bech at Bay ( 1998 ) Licks of Love ( 2000 ) . The Complete Henry Bech ( 2001 ) The Early Stories : 1953-1975 ( 2003 ) . My Father's Tears ( 2009 ) . The ...
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... tion and dare we hope ? -my last . In this terminal decade the editor of my favorite magazine , The New Yorker , became Tina Brown . It has been my bewildering professional experience to see the editors of that revered journal go from ...
... tion and dare we hope ? -my last . In this terminal decade the editor of my favorite magazine , The New Yorker , became Tina Brown . It has been my bewildering professional experience to see the editors of that revered journal go from ...
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... tion . On the strength of my early cartooning ambitions , my single year at an English art school , and my willingness to feel happy in museums , Art and Antiques , The New Republic , and The New York Review of Books have over the years ...
... tion . On the strength of my early cartooning ambitions , my single year at an English art school , and my willingness to feel happy in museums , Art and Antiques , The New Republic , and The New York Review of Books have over the years ...
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... tion . Perhaps my sensation was a trick of egocentric perspective - a child cannot but feel himself the center of the universe - but certain architec- tural remains corroborate it . In the nearby city of Reading , the munici- pal high ...
... tion . Perhaps my sensation was a trick of egocentric perspective - a child cannot but feel himself the center of the universe - but certain architec- tural remains corroborate it . In the nearby city of Reading , the munici- pal high ...
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... tion and thirty percent of the world's lawyers , none of them good for any- thing much but dealing with other lawyers , generating megafees that cumulatively function like a black hole at the center of the business world , sucking ...
... tion and thirty percent of the world's lawyers , none of them good for any- thing much but dealing with other lawyers , generating megafees that cumulatively function like a black hole at the center of the business world , sucking ...
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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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