Updike

by Pritchard, William H.

• ISBN13: 9781558495074
• ISBN10: 155849507X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-31
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms--novel, poem, and short story--he would continue to explore with steadily expanding skill and authority. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these three forms, but also in essays, reviews, and memoirs, and in resourceful commentary on his own work--the stuff of many interviews and prefaces. In this book, William H. Pritchard offers not a biography, but an insightful portrait of the writer and his work.

Author Biography

William H. Pritchard is Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chronology	xv
Introduction: The Man of Letters	1	(16)
First Fruits	17	(28)
The Novelist Takes Off	45	(18)
The Pennsylvania Thing	63	(54)
Adultery and Its Consequences	117	(28)
Impersonations of Men in Trouble (1)	145	(24)
Impersonations of Men in Trouble (2)	169	(26)
Extravagant Fictions	195	(34)
The Critic and Reviewer	229	(24)
Poet, Memoirist	253	(24)
Rabbit Retired	277	(24)
Post-Rabbit Effects	301	(32)
Notes	333	(6)
Bibliography	339	(4)
Index	343