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Hugging the shore ; : essays and criticism / John Updike. --.

Updike, John. (Author).

Summary:

Since 1960 the novelist and poet has been reviewing books for the New Yorker, and the reviews of the last eight years make up the bulk of this volume. Authors include Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Muriel Spark, Anne Tyler, Italo Calvino, Henry Green, Robert Pinget, L.E. Sissman, R.K. Narayan and Roland Barthes. He also writes of actresses Louise Brooks and Doris Day and golfers Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780394531793
  • Physical Description: 919 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Authors > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literature > Collections > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre: Essays.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Wyomissing.

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