Higher gossip : essays and criticism
Title:
Higher gossip : essays and criticism
Author:
Updike, John.
Carduff, Christopher.
ISBN:
9780241962268
Uniform Title:
Prose works. Selections
Publication Information:
London : Penguin, 2013.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 501 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Abstract:
A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.
Subject:
| Updike, John. |
| American essays -- 20th century. |
| American essays -- 21st century. |
| American prose literature -- 20th century. |
| American prose literature -- 21st century. |
| Literature, Modern -- History and criticism. |
Summary:
A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.