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- 2011013586 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.".
- 2011013586 alternative "Prose works. Selections".
- 2011013586 contributor B12115596.
- 2011013586 contributor B12115597.
- 2011013586 created "2011.".
- 2011013586 date "2011".
- 2011013586 date "2011.".
- 2011013586 dateCopyrighted "2011.".
- 2011013586 description "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.".
- 2011013586 description "Real Conversation -- The Writer in Winter -- A Desert Encounter -- Nessus at Noon -- The Football Factory -- The Beloved -- The Lens Factory -- Five Poems : Basium XVI ; Head of a Girl, at the Met ; Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital ; An Hour Without Color ; Not Cancelled Yet -- Book Chat -- Humor in Fiction -- Lives and Laurels : Soren Kierkegaard ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ernest Hemingway ; Kurt Vonnegut ; L. E. Sissman ; Raymond Carver -- Forewords and afterwords : The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall ; The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ; The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov ; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison -- Works and Days : The Changeling ; Back-Chat, Funny Cracks ; Imperishable Maxwell ; Basically Decent -- Fiction Now : Hugger-Mugger ; Classics Galore ; A Boston Fable ; Nan, American Man ; An Upstate Saga ; Relative Strangers ; Dreamy Wilderness -- Americana: Famous Aimee ; Laissez-faire is More ; Makeup and Make-Believe ; Sparky from St. Paul --".
- 2011013586 extent "xxiii, 501 p. :".
- 2011013586 identifier "0307957152 (hbk.)".
- 2011013586 identifier "9780307957153 (hbk.)".
- 2011013586 issued "2011".
- 2011013586 issued "2011.".
- 2011013586 language "eng".
- 2011013586 publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf,".
- 2011013586 subject "818/.5408 22".
- 2011013586 subject "American essays 20th century.".
- 2011013586 subject "American essays 21st century.".
- 2011013586 subject "American prose literature 20th century.".
- 2011013586 subject "American prose literature 21st century.".
- 2011013586 subject "Literature, Modern History and criticism.".
- 2011013586 subject "PS3571.P4 A6 2011".
- 2011013586 subject "Updike, John.".
- 2011013586 tableOfContents "Real Conversation -- The Writer in Winter -- A Desert Encounter -- Nessus at Noon -- The Football Factory -- The Beloved -- The Lens Factory -- Five Poems : Basium XVI ; Head of a Girl, at the Met ; Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital ; An Hour Without Color ; Not Cancelled Yet -- Book Chat -- Humor in Fiction -- Lives and Laurels : Soren Kierkegaard ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ernest Hemingway ; Kurt Vonnegut ; L. E. Sissman ; Raymond Carver -- Forewords and afterwords : The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall ; The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ; The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov ; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison -- Works and Days : The Changeling ; Back-Chat, Funny Cracks ; Imperishable Maxwell ; Basically Decent -- Fiction Now : Hugger-Mugger ; Classics Galore ; A Boston Fable ; Nan, American Man ; An Upstate Saga ; Relative Strangers ; Dreamy Wilderness -- Americana: Famous Aimee ; Laissez-faire is More ; Makeup and Make-Believe ; Sparky from St. Paul --".
- 2011013586 title "Higher gossip : essays and criticism / John Updike ; edited by Christopher Carduff.".
- 2011013586 title "Prose works. Selections".
- 2011013586 type "text".