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Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 704
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Author
Series
Twayne's studies in short fiction volume no. 43
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Prolific in a variety of genres, John Updike is one of North America's premier men of letters, regularly producing novels, poetry, short fiction, and volumes of assorted prose. Without question, he is one of the most widely read contemporary American authors. Updike's elegant fiction on the tensions and tragedies of contemporary middle-class life have earned him numerous awards, including the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Rabbit is Rich. Updike...
6) John Updike
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on the fiction of John Updike, arranged in chronological order of original publication.
7) A & P
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Portrays a young grocery store clerk, Sammy, who quits his job after witnessing his manager berate three girls for wearing only their bathing suits in the store. His noble act goes unnoticed by the girls, but is a defining moment in his transition from adolescence to adulthood. Includes an interview with John Updike conducted by Donald M. Murray.
Author
Publisher
Praeger, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Widely considered "America's Man of Letters," John Updike is a prolific novelist and critic with an unprecedented range of work across more than 50 years. No author has ever written from the variety of vantages or spanned topics like Updike did. Despite being widely recognized as one of the nation's literary greats, scholars have largely ignored Updike's vast catalog of work outside the Rabbit tetralogy. This work provides the first detailed examination...
9) Updike
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America,...
13) John Updike
Author
Series
University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers volume no. 79
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Publisher
Lehigh University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In Native Son: John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews James Plath has compiled the first collection of interviews that illustrates and helps to explain the bond between one of America's greatest literary talents and his beloved Pennsylvania. Includes an original...
18) Pigeon feathers
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A family returns to life on a farm and finds some answers to the paradox of living. The son, a young man, is having a crisis of faith when he begins to question the meaning of death. In searching through the questions of life and death, he discovers the wonder of living in the soaring beauty of one of nature's simplest creations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.