Self-Consciousness by Updike, John

Self-Consciousness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812982961)

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Self-Consciousness by Updike, John

Self-Consciousness

$19.00
Self-Consciousness by Updike, John

Self-Consciousness

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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John Updike's memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his foreword states, "to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world." In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest, matchlessly precise, and self-effacingly humorous. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, and beyond self-importance, into sheer wonder at the miracle of existence.

Author: John Updike
ISBN-10: 0812982967
ISBN-13: 9780812982961
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/13/2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.49w x 0.58d
By John Updike
By John Updike
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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.

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