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Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance

Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance

John Updike

Documents John Updike's visit to Cincinnati in 2001 as an honored guest of the university in a portrayal of one of America's literary giants as an adept and talented public performer and includes a collection of session transcripts, ...
John Updike

John Updike

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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of John Updike.
Conversations with John Updike

Conversations with John Updike

John Updike

Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993
Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

John Updike

'Gossip of a higher sort' was how the incomparable John Updike described the art of the review. Here then is the last collection of his best, most dazzling gossip.
For a Living: The Poetry of Work

For a Living: The Poetry of Work

Nicholas Coles

All poems are reprinted from The House I'm Running From by permission of the author and West End Press. © 1989 by Michelle M. Tokarczyk. JOHN UPDIKE. " Back from Vacation" is reprinted from Collected Poems by John Updike. © 1993 by ...
Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux

John Updike

It's 1969, and the times are changing.
The Digested Read

The Digested Read

John Crace

Philip Roth, Don Delillo, Margaret Drabble, Paul Auster, Alice Sebold, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton and Ian McEwan all emerge delightfully scathed in this book that makes it easy to talk ...
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John Updike

In a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat.
Villages

Villages

John Updike

Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery.
The John Updike Encyclopedia

The John Updike Encyclopedia

Jack De Bellis

Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this book provides an exceptional resource for both casual and serious readers.
Running Toward the Apocalypse: John Updike's New America

Running Toward the Apocalypse: John Updike's New America

Bob Batchelor

These works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Superfiction: or, The American story transformed : an anthology

Superfiction: or, The American story transformed : an anthology

Joe David Bellamy

Short stories by such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, John Gardner, and John Updike reveal experiments with myth and parable and other trends in American fiction during the past decade
Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest

John Updike

It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful.
John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary ...

John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary ...

Jack De Bellis

This definitive guide to materials by and about this prolific American author consists of a printed first volume and a second volume on CD-ROM.
The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

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By these sympathetic depictions, and perhapsmoreby regularly undrapingthecallous egotismofhis males,the author may well deserve MaryO' Connell's complimentary placement “amongthe precursors of the contemporary movement among ...
Brazil

Brazil

John Updike

Trista+a1o, an African-Brazilian street kid, and Isabel, an upper-class teen fresh from convent school, fall in love and flee from her rich father and the toughs he has sent in pursuit of them. Simultaneous.
John Updike: a collection of critical essays

John Updike: a collection of critical essays

David Thorburn

Reflects the critics' response to a major figure of contemporary American literature, who uniquely links modernist themes and traditional stylistic values of lucidity and form
The Book Collector

The Book Collector

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The Cary collection at Rochester (Dwight Agner on Goudy), the Updike papers in the Huntington and at Providence (Martin Hutner), and the Dwiggins papers at Boston Public Library (John Kristensen) stand out as collections that have been ...
Golf Dreams

Golf Dreams

John Updike

It makes for a lyrical book which is also thought-provoking . . . his lowest handicap was 18, but, in this delightful book, he has not dropped a stroke' Max Davidson, Daily Telegraph 'A stylish celebration of golf's propensity to ...
In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts

In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts

Abraham Lincoln

A collection of writings includes images of a variety of handwritten speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks, accompanied by commentary by James M. McPherson, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and other ...
The Witches of Eastwick: Vocal Selections

The Witches of Eastwick: Vocal Selections

Dana P. Rowe

The story, based on the John Updike novel, is set in the fictional Rhode Island town of Eastwick in the late 1960s, and follows the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont, who acquired their powers after leaving or ...
John Updike's Early Years

John Updike's Early Years

Jack De Bellis

Relying upon interviews with classmates and friends, and offering extensive connections to his mature work, De Bellis shows how his school years incubated his mature work.
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

Paul Abeln

Despite efforts at revival by John Updike and others, William Dean Howells still remains in the shadows of his close friends Mark Twain and Henry James. This book works against decades of unfavorable comparisons with these literary giants.
The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry

The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry

Richard Marius

A comprehensive volume explores the Civil War in a collection of classic and period pieces by such writers as Herman Melville, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, John Updike, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ...
John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion

John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion

Marshall Boswell

Structure of the finished "mega-novel" echoes the work's thematic rationale." "To help readers who are interested in a particular Rabbit novel. Boswell devotes a chapter to each individual section of the tetralogy.
Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' ...

Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' ...

Malin Pereira

For a discussion of Morrison's use of "magic realism," see Sanford Pinsker, and Craig Werner, "Homer's Joyce: John Updike, Ronald Sukenick, Robert Coover. Toni Morrison." For a particularly harsh critique of Morrison's use of "magic realism" ...
Compact Literature Reading Writing MLA 2016 Update

Compact Literature Reading Writing MLA 2016 Update

Laurie G. Kirszner

Laurie G. Kirszner, Stephen R. Mandell. Character ... Fiction in Film: John Updike's “A&P” Sammy at the cash register with a customer Source: ©Steven Payne/Worn Path Productions Queenie and her friends Source: ©Steven Payne/ Worn Path ...
History of the Episcopal Church, in Naragansett, ...

History of the Episcopal Church, in Naragansett, ...

Wilkins Updike

He then married Charlotte Coats, in the town of Reading, in the county of Berkshire, in England. "Shortly after, he went over to Ireland, for the purpose of painting the Duke of Rutland, then Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom. Unfortunately he ...
Anatomy of a Typeface

Anatomy of a Typeface

Alexander S. Lawson

From Garamond to Bembo to the design and manufacture of sans-serif letters and newspaper types, this is the first full-scale investigation of typefaces since D. B. Updike's classic Printing Types was published in 1922.
Conversations with William Maxwell

Conversations with William Maxwell

William Maxwell

The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell's extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his ...

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