John Updike
a critical biography
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Author
Publication
2013 - Praeger, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, California, California
Language
English
Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL30662970M
- ISBN-139780313384035
- OCLC Control Number810111194
- Library of Congress Control Number2012047894
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3571.P4 Z55 2013
Description
Widely considered "America's Man of Letters," John Updike is a prolific novelist and critic with an unprecedented range of work across more than 50 years. No author has ever written from the variety of vantages or spanned topics like Updike did. Despite being widely recognized as one of the nation's literary greats, scholars have largely ignored Updike's vast catalog of work outside the Rabbit tetralogy. This work provides the first detailed examination of Updike's body of criticism, poetry, and journalism, and shows how that work played a central role in transforming his novels. The book disputes the common misperception of Updike as merely a chronicler of suburban, middle-class America by focusing on his novels and stories that explore the wider world, from the groundbreaking The CouP (1978) to Terrorist (2006). Popular culture scholar Bob Batchelor asks readers to reassess Updike's career by tracing his transformation over half a century of writing.
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- John Updike: a critical biography
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