Isbn: 9780394724973 - hugging the shore: essays and criticism (15 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. WINER OF THE NATIONAL BOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea, writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even the least of the reviews here--those that come about and draw even closer to the land with another nine-point quotation--are distinguished by a novelist's style, insight, and accuracy, not just surface sparkle. Indeed, as James Atlas commented, the most substantial critical articles, on Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman, go out as far as Updike's fiction: They are the sort of ambitious scholarly reappraisal not seen in this country since the death of Edmund Wilson. With Hugging the Shore, Michiko Kakutani wrote, Updike established himself as a major and enduring critical voice; indeed, as the pre-eminent critic of his generation.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Vintage 1984-10-12 00:00:00 Binding: Trade Paperback VG. in wraps dj. 919. Trade pb edition. 12vo.

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Zustand: Good. Composed chiefly of Updike's book reviews of the past eight years, this collection includes pieces on Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, and Muriel Spark, on actresses Doris Day and Louise Brooks and an appendix of imaginary interviews, humorous pieces, and essays; Fijne leeslijntjes in de rug, overigens gaaf.…

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