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Essays And Criticism

John Updike

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Penguin
02 October 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Prose: non-fiction

A superlative collection from the late, great John Updike, the finest American critic and essayist of his time

With a fiction writer's affectionate, shaping hand, Updike explores everything from the nature of evil and the philosophical content of literature to the wreck of the Titanic and the infuriating phenomenon of unopenable parcels.

Exploring the work of both his peers and his predecessors, there are numerous fascinating pieces on literature, but Updike also gives sharp-eyed impressions of the other arts, from film to photography to painting, as well as honing in, with his peerless acuity, on the incidental and overlooked details that constitute so much of our lives.

By: John Updike
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 619g
ISBN: 9780140289701
ISBN 10: 0140289704
Pages: 928
Publication Date: 02 October 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

Reviews for More Matter: Essays And Criticism

He is both a superb unraveller and a super accepter of the contradictions of the world . . . we should simply be grateful that he is there with his fine, discriminatory prose * Sunday Times * A modern master, the finest writer working in English -- Ian McEwan