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Higher Gossip (Essays and Criticism)
[Paperback - 2013]
john updike
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Essays
Additional Category: Literary Criticism
Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780241962268 | Pages: 501
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'Gossip of a higher sort' was how John Updike described the art of the review. Here, then, is the last collection of his most dazzling gossip, compiled shortly before his death in 2009. Displaying his characteristic humour and insight on subjects as varied as ageing, golf, dinosaurs and make-up, the delightful Higher Gossipbookends a legacy of over fifty celebrated titles and is is essential reading for lovers of literature. 'Shining, alert, open, kind. The range of Updike's curiosity, the closeness of his attention and the depth of his perceptions are triumphantly displayed. A joy to read for anyone who cherishes literary intelligence.' Spectator 'Astonishing. Updike illuminated life for all of us.' Sunday Times 'Updike's prose had the sort of swaggering brilliance that surpassed his readers' expectations and left them wanting more. There's his easy mastery of subjects from physics to baseball, all of them written about with the unfussy enthusiasm of a Renaissance scholar crossed with an American everyman.' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest writers of his generation. It combines Updike's various interests, of which art and literature figure most prominently. But here too we have Updike the golfer, the memoirist and the public figure.' Herald 'Amounts to seven pillars, if not of wisdom then something not far off, of warm scrupulous attentiveness.' Observer 'A great master of the fine print of existence, the corners of human pleasures and sadness.' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times

About the Author

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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