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More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Autor John Updike
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2014
More Matteris a collection of John Updike's best-loved critical essays and reflections.
From the journals of John Cheever to the Queen of England,More Matteris a lively discussion on contemporary art, issues and people, told from the inimitable perspective of Pulitzer prizewinner John Updike. Wide ranging, incisive, witty and always superbly written, it has something to say about almost everyone - from Graham Greene to Bill Gates to Mickey Mouse - and everything - from sexual politics to spiritual matters to unopenable packages. It provides any number of intimate glimpses into how this remarkable mind works.
Praise forMore Matter:
'Unlike most journalism, Updike's occasional writing is so exquisite as to repay multiple readings'Publishers Weekly

'More Matterattests to Mr. Updike's remarkable versatility and to his ardent drive to turn all his observations into glittering, gossamer prose. . . . In his strongest pieces, Mr. Updike's awesome pictorial powers of description combine with a rigorous, searching intelligence to produce essays of enormous tactile power and conviction'New York Times

'More Matterwill leave even his closest followers amazed. . . . Updike can write about anything, in any form and at any length, and do it with intelligence and knowledge and grace and agility and wit-and oh, the prose'Pittsburgh Tribune Review
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780140289701
ISBN-10: 0140289704
Pagini: 928
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, includingThe Poorhouse Fair;the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run;Rabbit Redux;Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest);Marry Me;The Witches of Eastwick,which was made into a major feature film;Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies;Toward the End of Time;Gertrude and Claudius;andSeek My Face.He has written a number of collections of short stories, includingThe Afterlife and Other StoriesandLicks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story,Rabbit Remembered.His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as theNew Yorkerand theNew York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes.Collected Poems 1953-1993brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of hisSelected Poemsis forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.
His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.
Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

Recenzii

A modern master, the finest writer working in English
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