Picked-Up Pieces: Essays by Updike, John

Picked-Up Pieces: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812983807)

Vendor: John Updike
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$20.00
$20.00
$20.00
Subtotal: $20.00
Picked-Up Pieces: Essays by Updike, John

Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

$20.00
Picked-Up Pieces: Essays by Updike, John

Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

$20.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
In John Updike's second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early '70s. If one word could sum up the young critic's approach to books and their authors it would be "generosity" "Better to praise and share," he says in his Foreword, "than to blame and ban." And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early "golf dreams," and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit--and John Updike.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0812983807
ISBN-13: 9780812983807
Publisher: Random House Trade
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2013
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.40w x 1.14d
By John Updike
By John Updike
x
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.

Recently Viewed Products