Updike
(Book)
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Published:
New York : Harper, 2014.
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Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xiii, 558 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status:
East Hampton Adult Biography
B UPDIKE
Description
"A brilliant biography. . . . The joys are . . . discovering the autobiographical content of the . . . details that populate Updike's vast fictional universe." —Orhan Pamuk, The New York Times Book Review
Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, Pulitzer prize–winning novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities."
Updike explores the writer's beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life—including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling Couples.
With a sharp critical sensibility, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works—from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy—and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character fraught with contradictions. Updike offers an admiring yet balanced look at one of American literature's most treasured authors.
"A superb achievement. . . . as rewarding as Updike's best fiction." —Scott Stossel, The Boston Globe
"A monumental treatment of a towering American writer." —The New York Observer
"A highly literate illumination of a supremely literate human being." —Louis Menand, The New Yorker
Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, Pulitzer prize–winning novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities."
Updike explores the writer's beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life—including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling Couples.
With a sharp critical sensibility, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works—from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy—and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character fraught with contradictions. Updike offers an admiring yet balanced look at one of American literature's most treasured authors.
"A superb achievement. . . . as rewarding as Updike's best fiction." —Scott Stossel, The Boston Globe
"A monumental treatment of a towering American writer." —The New York Observer
"A highly literate illumination of a supremely literate human being." —Louis Menand, The New Yorker
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0061896454, 9780061896453
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APA Citation (style guide)
Begley, A. (2014). Updike. First edition. New York, Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Begley, Adam. 2014. Updike. New York, Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Begley, Adam, Updike. New York, Harper, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Begley, Adam. Updike. First edition. New York, Harper, 2014.
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