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Updike in Cincinnati: A Literary Performance
John UpdikeDocuments 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
More editionsProvides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of John Updike.
Conversations with John Updike
John UpdikeCollects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993
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
Nicholas ColesAll 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 ...
The Digested Read
John CracePhilip 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 UpdikeIn a moment of sudden inspiration Sarah Worth - S. - has walked out on her husband to join the Ashram Arhat.
Villages
John UpdikeOwen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery.
The John Updike Encyclopedia
Jack De BellisThrough 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
Bob BatchelorThese works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Superfiction: or, The American story transformed : an anthology
Joe David BellamyShort 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
John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary ...
Jack De BellisThis 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
PreviewBy 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
John UpdikeTrista+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
David ThorburnReflects 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
More editionsThe 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
John UpdikeIt 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
Abraham LincolnA 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
Dana P. RoweThe 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
Jack De BellisRelying 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
Paul AbelnDespite 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
Richard MariusA 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
Marshall BoswellStructure 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' ...
Malin PereiraFor 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
Laurie G. KirsznerLaurie 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, ...
Wilkins UpdikeHe 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
Alexander S. LawsonFrom 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
William MaxwellThe 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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