Picked-up pieces / John Updike.
A collection of the author's non-fiction prose pieces and reviews.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394498496
- ISBN: 9780394498492
- Physical Description: xx, 519 pages, xxiii pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1975.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Reviews: The fork -- Religious notes -- Dostoevsky. A raw something ; Polina and Aleksei and Anna and Losnitsky -- Knut Hamsun. "My mind was without a shadow" ; Half-mad and maddening ; Love as a standoff -- Joyce and Proust. Questions concerning Giacomo ; Remembrance of things past remembered -- Borges. The author as librarian ; Three translations -- Nabokov. Mnemosyne chastened ; Mary unrevamped ; Crunch of happiness ; Van loves Ada, Ada loves Van ; Translucing of Hugh Person ; Motley but true ; A tribute -- English lives. A short life ; Ayrton fecit ; Mastery of Miss Warner ; A sere life, or, Sprigge's ivy ; Milton adapts Genesis, Collier adapts Milton ; Auden fecit ; A messed-up life -- French deaths. Death's heads ; Albertine disparue ; Saganland and the back of beyond ; In praise of the blind, black god -- Europe. Two points on a descending curve ; View from the dental chair ; Snail on the stump ; Witold who? ; Inward and onward -- Africa. Out of the glum continent ; Shades of black ; Addendum : excerpts from a symposium ; Through a continent, darkly -- Avant garde. Grove is my press, and avant my garde ; Infante terrible ; Satire without serifs ; Bombs made out of leftovers ; Mortal games -- Young Americans. If at first you do succeed, try, try again ; From Dyna Domes to turkey-pressing ; Jong love -- Older Americans. Indifference ; Papa's sad testament ; And yet again wonderful ; Talk of a tired town ; His own horn ; Remarks ; A citation ; An unpublished book note ; An interesting emendation ; Phantom life -- Non-fiction. Black suicide ; Fool's gold ; Sons of slaves ; Coffee-table books for high coffee tables ; Before the sky collapses ; A new meliorism ; Alive and free from employment.Views: The literary life. On meeting writers ; Voznesensky met ; Bech meets me ; Farewell to the middle class -- Four speeches. Accuracy ; Future of the novel ; From Humor in fiction ; Why write? -- London life. Notes of a temporary resident ; Notes to a poem -- Amor vincit omni ad nauseam -- Cemeteries -- Letter from Anguilla. P.S. -- Four introductions. To Pens and needles ; To the Czech edition of Of the farm ; To The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration ; To Soundings in Satanism -- Golf. The first lunar invitational ; Tips on a trip ; Is there life after golf?
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| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tViews: The literary life. On meeting writers ; ‡tVoznesensky met ; ‡tBech meets me ; ‡tFarewell to the middle class -- ‡tFour speeches. Accuracy ; ‡tFuture of the novel ; ‡tFrom Humor in fiction ; ‡tWhy write? -- ‡tLondon life. Notes of a temporary resident ; ‡tNotes to a poem -- ‡tAmor vincit omni ad nauseam -- ‡tCemeteries -- ‡tLetter from Anguilla. P.S. -- ‡tFour introductions. To Pens and needles ; ‡tTo the Czech edition of Of the farm ; ‡tTo The Harvard lampoon centennial celebration ; ‡tTo Soundings in Satanism -- ‡tGolf. The first lunar invitational ; ‡tTips on a trip ; ‡tIs there life after golf? |
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