74406X1 First Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1991. 919 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. This is John Updike's fourth collection of non-fictional prose. The central section, "Mostly Literary," pays tribute to four older writers, introduces seven masterworks, ponders five moralists, and considers, with Updike's usual respectful attention and generosity of quotation, such authors as William Dean Howells, Bernard Shaw, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Peter Taylor, Anne Tyler, Philip Roth, Robert Pinget, Michel Tournier, Iris Murdoch, Umberto Eco, Cyril Connolly, Muriel Spark, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Bruno Schulz, Yuri Trifonov, Vassily Aksyonov, Harry Mulisch, Peter Handke, and Thomas Bernhard. Includes an Index. "Mr. Updike has established himself as a major and enduring critical voice; indeed, as the preeminent critic of his generation." - Mickiko Kakutani, The New York Times ISBN: 0679404147 $32.95USD
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