Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
John Updike$34.00
$40.00
A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido--from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.
"[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."--The Los Angeles Times
Here Updike considers many books, some in introductions--to such classics as Walden, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Mabinogion--and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Wizard of Oz. Contemporary American and English writers--Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan--receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk. In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the "unsinkable career" of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and S ren Kierkegaard. Reading Due Considerations is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports with a witty, sensitive, and articulate guide aboard--a voyage not to be missed.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/23/2007
ISBN: 9780307266408
Pages: 736
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.62w x 1.75d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2007 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2007 pg. 51
Booklist 08/01/2007 pg. 5
Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 137
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2007 pg. 916
Vanity Fair 11/01/2007 pg. 136
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2007 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 11/11/2007 pg. 56
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2007 pg. 13
New York Review of Books 05/15/2008 pg. 21
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1162
"[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."--The Los Angeles Times
Here Updike considers many books, some in introductions--to such classics as Walden, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Mabinogion--and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Wizard of Oz. Contemporary American and English writers--Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan--receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk. In factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the "unsinkable career" of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and S ren Kierkegaard. Reading Due Considerations is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports with a witty, sensitive, and articulate guide aboard--a voyage not to be missed.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/23/2007
ISBN: 9780307266408
Pages: 736
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.62w x 1.75d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2007 pg. 94
Publishers Weekly 07/23/2007 pg. 51
Booklist 08/01/2007 pg. 5
Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 137
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2007 pg. 916
Vanity Fair 11/01/2007 pg. 136
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2007 pg. 16
New York Times Book Review 11/11/2007 pg. 56
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2007 pg. 13
New York Review of Books 05/15/2008 pg. 21
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1162