More Matter: Essays and Criticism - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375406301 ISBN 13: 9780375406300

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Synopsis

In his fiftieth book and fifth collection of prose, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist presents a rich range of essays, criticism, humorous observations, and introductions, as he shares his thoughts on religion and literature, twentieth-century New York writing, and his own life and work. 25,000 first printing. BOMC.

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Review:

A modern master, the finest writer working in English (Ian McEwan)

He is both a superb unraveller and a super accepter of the contradictions of the world . . . we should simply be grateful that he is there with his fine, discriminatory prose (Sunday Times)

About the Author:

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker, and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the father of four children and the author of fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells Medal. A previous collection of essays, Hugging the Shore, received the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375406301
• ISBN 13: 9780375406300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 900