Self-consciousness: Memoirs - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039457222X ISBN 13: 9780394572222

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description; xii, 257 p. ; 22 cm. Includes decorated endpapers. Subjects; Updike, John - Biography. Updike, John 1932- - Biography. Updike, John 1932- - Criticism and interpretation. Authors, American - 20th century - Biography. Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography. American fiction. Fiction, American. Fiction in English - American writers - 1945- - Biographies - Collections. Genre; Autobiography.

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Reseña del editor:

John Updike’s memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and sense of self. These essays together give the inner shape of a life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. He has attempted, his foreword states, “to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.” In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest and beautifully eloquent, not to say, in a number of places, self-effacingly funny. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, into sheer wonder at the world and its fabric.

Biografía del autor:

John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 039457222X
• ISBN 13: 9780394572222
• Einband: Tapa dura