Updike: America's Man of LettersLiverpool University Press, 2005 M01 1 - 350 pages 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, but an insightful portrait of the writer and his work. |
Contents
First Fruits | 17 |
The Novelist Takes Off | 45 |
The Pennsylvania Thing | 65 |
Adultery and Its Consequences | 117 |
Impersonations of Men in Trouble 1 | 145 |
Impersonations of Men in Trouble 2 | 169 |
Extravagant Fictions | 195 |
The Critic and Reviewer | 229 |
Poet Memoirist | 253 |
Rabbit Retired | 277 |
PostRabbit Effects | 301 |
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References to this book
Rabbit (un)redeemed: The Drama of Belief in John Updike's Fiction Peter J. Bailey Limited preview - 2006 |