Due Considerations

Essays and Criticism

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Essays & Letters, Essays
Cover of the book Due Considerations by John Updike, Random House Publishing Group
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Author: John Updike ISBN: 9780307555809
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Publication: December 30, 2008
Imprint: Random House Language: English
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780307555809
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication: December 30, 2008
Imprint: Random House
Language: English

“A drop of truth, of lived experienced, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike modestly described his nonfiction pieces, of which Due Considerations is perhaps his most varied, stylish, and personal collection. Here Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo, A. S. Byatt, Colson Whitehead, andMargaret Atwood. He visits China, goes to art exhibitions, provides a whimsical and insightful list of “Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido,” and shares his thoughts on the fall of the Twin Towers, which he witnessed from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn. John Updike was always more than simply one of America’s most acclaimed novelists; he was also, as the Los Angeles Times noted in appraising this volume,“one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced.”

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“A drop of truth, of lived experienced, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike modestly described his nonfiction pieces, of which Due Considerations is perhaps his most varied, stylish, and personal collection. Here Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo, A. S. Byatt, Colson Whitehead, andMargaret Atwood. He visits China, goes to art exhibitions, provides a whimsical and insightful list of “Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido,” and shares his thoughts on the fall of the Twin Towers, which he witnessed from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn. John Updike was always more than simply one of America’s most acclaimed novelists; he was also, as the Los Angeles Times noted in appraising this volume,“one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced.”

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