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Updike: America's Man of Letters
William H Pritchard
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Description for Updike: America's Man of Letters
Paperback. Presents a look at the work, career, and literary reputation of John Updike. By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms - novel, poem, and short story. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these forms. This book offers a portrait of the writer and his work. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
This is the first comprehensive critical look at the work, career, and literary reputation of John Updike. By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms - novel, poem, and short story - he would continue to explore with steadily expanding skill and authority. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these three forms, but also in essays, reviews, and memoirs, and in resourceful commentary on his own work - the stuff of many interviews and prefaces. In this book, William H. Pritchard offers not a biography, ... Read more
This is the first comprehensive critical look at the work, career, and literary reputation of John Updike. By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms - novel, poem, and short story - he would continue to explore with steadily expanding skill and authority. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these three forms, but also in essays, reviews, and memoirs, and in resourceful commentary on his own work - the stuff of many interviews and prefaces. In this book, William H. Pritchard offers not a biography, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495074
SKU
V9781558495074
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About William H Pritchard
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD is Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1958. His many books include Shelf Life: Literary Essays and Reviews; Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life; and Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered.
Reviews for Updike: America's Man of Letters
William Pritchard has written an intelligent, eloquently argued and highly persuasive study of John Updike's monumental oeuvre. Mr. Pritchard is both sympathetic and critical: his reading of Updike is intimate, knowing, and judicious. - Joyce Carol Oates ""Updike could hardly have had a more able champion. Updike: America's Man of Letters is accessible, balanced, open-minded, free of lit-crit babble and ... Read more