4 QUOTES WITH «UPDIKE»
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Updike.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPDIKE»
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Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation.
Drawing on in-depth archival research as well as interviews with the writer's family, friends, and colleagues, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life—including his enduring religious faith, his two ...
A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.
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The Early Stories: 1953-1975
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great ...
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Updike: America's Man of Letters
In this book, William H. Pritchard offers not a biography, but an insightful portrait of the writer and his work.
William H. Pritchard, 2005
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Updike's Version: Rewriting The Scarlet Letter
Providing close and detailed readings of the novels, Updike's Version will be of major importance to students and scholars of John Updike, Nathaniel Hawthorne's canonical American text, and American literature in general.
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John
Updike's Early Years
John Updike s Early Years reveals for the first time the young Updike s developing personality and precocious creativity.
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John
Updike: a study of the short fiction
Robert M. Luscher's well organized presentation, cogent use of existing scholarship, and persuasive insights are sure to make this a ground-breaking study of John Updike's short fiction.
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Conversations with John
Updike
Collects thirty-two interviews with the writer between 1959 and 1993
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Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel
Gertrude and Claudius are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and family dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, erratic, disaffected prince. “I hoped to keep the texture light,” Updike said ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPDIKE»
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Our view: Updike cuts to the chase
Bedford County Circuit Court Judge James Updike makes his ruling on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, ordering a six-month injunction stopping Sweet Briar ... «Roanoke Times, Jun 15»
Our view: What Updike is up to
This being Judge James Updike's surprise ruling Wednesday for the next six months, Sweet Briar College can't sell, give away or do anything to “dissipate” its ... «Roanoke Times, Apr 15»
Court ruling extends efforts to keep Sweet Briar open
Judge James W. Updike Jr. ruled the county attorney for Amherst County does have standing under state law to challenge whether the college leadership is ... «Richmond.com, Apr 15»
Updike's Affair With America
In January 1986, John Updike spoke at a PEN international writers' congress in New York. He was well established as “America's preeminent man of letters,” as ... «The American Conservative, Aug 14»
Judging John Updike
But Updike has always had detractors, beginning, in 1965, with John W Aldridge (no relation, I believe, to the striker who did so well for Liverpool after his ... «New Statesman, May 14»
Updike by Adam Begley, review
It is the summer of 1967 and John Updike is ranting at Philip Roth about Vietnam. They are dinner guests of Bernard Taper (one of the original Monuments Men) ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
'Updike' explores how reality inspires fiction
Not once but twice did John Updike make the cover of Time, back when that was a big deal for anyone, much less a novelist. First in 1968 for Couples, his best ... «USA TODAY, Apr 14»
Adam Begley's 'Updike'
At first, he wanted to be a graphic artist. In 1954, John Updike — age 22, newly married and fresh out of Harvard, where he'd studied English literature and taken ... «New York Times, Apr 14»
Updike's Story
Thus says F. Scott Fitzgerald in his Notebooks, the dictum used as an epigraph to John Updike's talk on literary biography. Compelling as this sounds at first, ... «The Weekly Standard, Apr 14»
'Updike,' Adam Begley's Look at a Novelist's Career
John Updike (1932-2009) grew up to like high spirits, gags, party games. At The Harvard Lampoon, where he became editor, he organized elaborate pranks that ... «New York Times, Apr 14»
