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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... took me uneasily into terri- tory already thoroughly patrolled by Anthony Lane . He and I bumped heads in the dark of a midtown screening room and I beat a quick retreat . Though The New Yorker has always been scrupulously , tirelessly ...
... took me uneasily into terri- tory already thoroughly patrolled by Anthony Lane . He and I bumped heads in the dark of a midtown screening room and I beat a quick retreat . Though The New Yorker has always been scrupulously , tirelessly ...
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... took it upon myself , perhaps wickedly , to remind the presumed students of divinity that a once- healthy religion existed outside the Judeo - Christian belief system and died , as it were , in literature's embrace . The itch to inform ...
... took it upon myself , perhaps wickedly , to remind the presumed students of divinity that a once- healthy religion existed outside the Judeo - Christian belief system and died , as it were , in literature's embrace . The itch to inform ...
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. weapons , featuring the H - bomb . It took its bow at Eniwetok in 1952 and then , for an encore , at Bikini in 1954. In 1953 the new and rather tem- porary head of the Soviet Union , Georgi Malenkov ...
Essays and Criticism John Updike. weapons , featuring the H - bomb . It took its bow at Eniwetok in 1952 and then , for an encore , at Bikini in 1954. In 1953 the new and rather tem- porary head of the Soviet Union , Georgi Malenkov ...
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... took its energy from inspired lonely defiers like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King . What is hardest to picture about the Fifties is how many less of us there were , a hundred million less : the U.S. census for 1950 counted about 150 ...
... took its energy from inspired lonely defiers like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King . What is hardest to picture about the Fifties is how many less of us there were , a hundred million less : the U.S. census for 1950 counted about 150 ...
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... took ballet as a tiny girl and loved her Connecticut cotil- lions . Well , I tell her , life is more than a two - step . But in my heart I fear it is not ; we are born ( step one ) and then we die ( step two ) , and between- times the ...
... took ballet as a tiny girl and loved her Connecticut cotil- lions . Well , I tell her , life is more than a two - step . But in my heart I fear it is not ; we are born ( step one ) and then we die ( step two ) , and between- times the ...
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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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