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Picked-Up Pieces: Essays
Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0812983807     ISBN-13: 9780812983807
Publisher: Random House Trade
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Literary Collections | Essays
- History | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 814.54
Physical Information: 1.14" H x 6.4" W x 9.26" L (1.20 lbs) 544 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
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In John Updike's second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early '70s. If one word could sum up the young critic's approach to books and their authors it would be "generosity" "Better to praise and share," he says in his Foreword, "than to blame and ban." And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early "golf dreams," and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit--and John Updike.
 
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