Name: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays (en Inglés)
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Author: John Updike

portada Picked-Up Pieces: Essays (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Random House Inc

Autor

John Updike

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

544

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0812983807

ISBN13

9780812983807

Categorías

Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia general y del mundo

Picked-Up Pieces: Essays (en Inglés)

John Updike (Autor) · Random House Inc · Tapa Blanda

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In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”: “Better to praise and share,” he says in his Foreword, “than to blame and ban.” And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early “golf dreams,” and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit—and John Updike.