Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism - John Updike - Książki - Random House Trade Paperbacks - 9780812983784 - 15 stycznia 2013
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism Reprint edition

John Updike

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism Reprint edition

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
 
?Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,? writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even the least of the reviews here?those that ?come about and draw even closer to the land with another nine-point quotation??are distinguished by a novelist?s style, insight, and accuracy, not just surface sparkle. Indeed, as James Atlas commented, the most substantial critical articles, on Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman, go out as far as Updike?s fiction: They are ?the sort of ambitious scholarly reappraisal not seen in this country since the death of Edmund Wilson.? With Hugging the Shore, Michiko Kakutani wrote, Updike established himself ?as a major and enduring critical voice; indeed, as the pre-eminent critic of his generation.?

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 15 stycznia 2013
ISBN13 9780812983784
Wydawcy Random House Trade Paperbacks
Strony 896
Wymiary 163 × 236 × 38 mm   ·   866 g
Język English  

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