Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by Updike, John

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812983685)

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Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by Updike, John

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

$27.00
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism by Updike, John

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

$27.00
Format: Paperback
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One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century--and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series--delivers the intimate, generous, insightful, and beautifully written collection he was compiling when he died.

This collection of miscellaneous prose opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter, a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic. It concludes with a moving meditation on a modern world robbed of imagination--a world without religion, without art--and on the difficulties of faith in a disbelieving age.

In between are previously uncollected stories and poems, a pageant of scenes from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, five late "golf dreams," and several of Updike's commentaries on his own work. At the heart of the book are his matchless reviews--of John Cheever, Ann Patchett, Toni Morrison, William Maxwell, John le Carré, and essays on Aimee Semple McPherson, Max Factor, and Albert Einstein, among others. Also included are two decades of art criticism--on Chardin, El Greco, Blake, Turner, Van Gogh, Max Ernest, and more.

Updike's criticism is gossip of the highest order, delivered in an intimate and generous voice.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0812983688
ISBN-13: 9780812983685
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2012
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.39h x 6.38w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/09/2012 pg. 32
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John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

Christopher Carduff, the editor of this volume, is a member of the staff of The Library of America.

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