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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... written prin- ciples rather than of anciently inherited customs ; the courts are the busy , noisy forges wherein our theoretical equality is beaten out , again and again . The equality that de Tocqueville saw in 1831 as defining the ...
... written prin- ciples rather than of anciently inherited customs ; the courts are the busy , noisy forges wherein our theoretical equality is beaten out , again and again . The equality that de Tocqueville saw in 1831 as defining the ...
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... written these impressions in 1999 , there would have been less talk of economic malaise and of Japanese wizardry . I would have felt compelled to mention , however , the President who , though exemplary in many respects , with a ...
... written these impressions in 1999 , there would have been less talk of economic malaise and of Japanese wizardry . I would have felt compelled to mention , however , the President who , though exemplary in many respects , with a ...
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... war ) , racial harmony , pot , rock , Written , in 1996 , for New Choices , a magazine for the unyoung . bell - bottoms , LSD , tie - dyed T 22 MATTERS OF STATE Letter to a Baby Boomer The Fifties GENDER AND HEALTH ཚུ xxi.
... war ) , racial harmony , pot , rock , Written , in 1996 , for New Choices , a magazine for the unyoung . bell - bottoms , LSD , tie - dyed T 22 MATTERS OF STATE Letter to a Baby Boomer The Fifties GENDER AND HEALTH ཚུ xxi.
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... Written for a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review ( Fall 1993 ) on this topic , as a companion piece to " The Female Body , " incited by the same editors and reprinted in Odd Jobs , pp . 70-72 . years ' duration — I used to ...
... Written for a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review ( Fall 1993 ) on this topic , as a companion piece to " The Female Body , " incited by the same editors and reprinted in Odd Jobs , pp . 70-72 . years ' duration — I used to ...
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... Written for Hockney's Alphabet , a compilation edited by Stephen Spender , illustrated by David Hockney , and published in this country by Random House ( 1991 ) in association with the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust . The letters ...
... Written for Hockney's Alphabet , a compilation edited by Stephen Spender , illustrated by David Hockney , and published in this country by Random House ( 1991 ) in association with the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust . The letters ...
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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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