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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

by JohnUpdike (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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    Hardcover 2007

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Synopsis

This collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, 'Everything Considered', in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English and American contemporaries; as well as non-fiction topics from the sinking of the Lusitania to Coco Chanel's 'unsinkable career'; tributes to legendary New Yorker figures, and much more. A cruise through the cultural waters of the past decade with as delightful, witty, sensitive and articulate a guide as you could hope for, Due Considerations is a voyage not to be missed.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 736
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 30 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 0141033118
ISBN 13: 9780141033112

Media Reviews
The greatest writer of English prose alive * Sunday Times *
Confirms his standing as an intellectual with the rigour of the late Edmund Wilson * Metro *
His ability to generate sentences of consistently high quality remains unimpaired * Tablet *
The greatest writer of English prose alive * Sunday Times *
Confirms his standing as an intellectual with the rigour of the late Edmund Wilson * Metro *
His ability to generate sentences of consistently high quality remains unimpaired * Tablet *
Author Bio
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993 brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal. Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.