More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19. 2. 2009. - 928 страница 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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... the young , reared on seven daily hours of television - watching , are simply less educable , as slumping SAT scores show . Their high schools no longer look like castles THE STATE OF THE UNION , AS OF MARCH 1992 : 17.
... the young , reared on seven daily hours of television - watching , are simply less educable , as slumping SAT scores show . Their high schools no longer look like castles THE STATE OF THE UNION , AS OF MARCH 1992 : 17.
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Essays and Criticism John Updike. show . Their high schools no longer look like castles but like second - rate airports , low - slung and cut - rate , while the society's riches are reserved , in a curious gerontocratic shift , to the ...
Essays and Criticism John Updike. show . Their high schools no longer look like castles but like second - rate airports , low - slung and cut - rate , while the society's riches are reserved , in a curious gerontocratic shift , to the ...
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... Look at go - go , exotic , and belly dancers . Dancing is both self - exhibition and self - exploration . Until the twist came along in 1960 , it was hard to see your female part- ner . She was a piece of waved hair , a bare shoulder ...
... Look at go - go , exotic , and belly dancers . Dancing is both self - exhibition and self - exploration . Until the twist came along in 1960 , it was hard to see your female part- ner . She was a piece of waved hair , a bare shoulder ...
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... look that was very attractive . I , as my psoriasis spots wilted beneath the hammering of ultraviolet rays , suppressed shouts of sheer happiness at being so naked in this American space , at feeling so free . Perception fragmented into ...
... look that was very attractive . I , as my psoriasis spots wilted beneath the hammering of ultraviolet rays , suppressed shouts of sheer happiness at being so naked in this American space , at feeling so free . Perception fragmented into ...
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... look , the insteps and toes tanning but the tougher sides , heels , and soles resisting the sun's delicate dye . Tanned toes ! And the little blush of pink that appears on the thin skin beneath the eyes when the two noontide hours have ...
... look , the insteps and toes tanning but the tougher sides , heels , and soles resisting the sun's delicate dye . Tanned toes ! And the little blush of pink that appears on the thin skin beneath the eyes when the two noontide hours have ...
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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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