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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
de John Updike
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- ISBN 10
- 0307266400
- ISBN 13
- 9780307266408
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Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in red cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket, with price of $40 on front flap, are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xxii/703 pages.
"Here Updike considers many books, some in introductions—to such classics as "Walden," "The Portrait of a Lady," and "The Mabinogion"—and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Wizard of Oz."
Contemporary American and English writers—Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan—receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk.
In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the "unsinkable career" of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and Søren Kierkegaard."
Sinopsis
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
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- Librería
- Palimpsest Scholarly Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2422
- Título
- Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
- Autor
- John Updike
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0307266400
- ISBN 13
- 9780307266408
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2007018665
- Palabras clave
- US Literature
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