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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pritchard, William H. Updike. South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606333416 |
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| Named Person: | John Updike; John Updike; John Updike; John Updike |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William H Pritchard |
| ISBN: | 158642002X 9781586420024 |
| OCLC Number: | 43992508 |
| Description: | xiii, 351 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. First Fruits -- 2. The Novelist Takes off -- 3. The Pennsylvania Thing -- 4. Adultery and Its Consequences -- 5. Impersonations of Men in Trouble (1) -- 6. Impersonations of Men in Trouble (2) -- 7. Extravagant Fictions -- 8. The Critic and Reviewer -- 9. Poet, Memoirist -- 10. Rabbit Retired -- 11. Post-Rabbit Effects. |
| Responsibility: | William H. Pritchard. |
Abstract:
"Updike: America's Man of Letters is the first comprehensive critical look at the work, career, and literary reputation of America's most influential man of letters since Edmund Wilson. By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms - novel, poem, and short story - he would continue to explore with steadily expanding brilliance and authority. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these three forms, but also in essays, reviews, and memoirs, and in resourceful commentary on his own work - the stuff of many interviews and prefaces. Pritchard's book is not a biography, but a portrait of the writer and his work."--BOOK JACKET.
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