The Resource Updike, Adam Begley
Updike, Adam Begley
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- Summary
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities."Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life--including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the adulterous society he was credited with exposing in the bestselling couples
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Formerly CIP
- Contents
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- A tour of Berks County
- The Harvard years
- The talk of the town
- Welcome to Tarbox
- The two Iseults
- Couples
- Updike abroad
- Tarbox redux
- Marrying Martha
- Haven Hill
- The lonely fort
- Endpoint
- Isbn
- 9780061896453
- Label
- Updike
- Title
- Updike
- Statement of responsibility
- Adam Begley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities."Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life--including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the adulterous society he was credited with exposing in the bestselling couples
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10300448
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Begley, Adam
- Dewey number
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Updike, John
- Updike, John
- Authors, American
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Updike, Adam Begley
- Note
- Formerly CIP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- still image
- text
- Contents
- A tour of Berks County -- The Harvard years -- The talk of the town -- Welcome to Tarbox -- The two Iseults -- Couples -- Updike abroad -- Tarbox redux -- Marrying Martha -- Haven Hill -- The lonely fort -- Endpoint
- Control code
- 000052167402
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780061896453
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Updike, Adam Begley
- Note
- Formerly CIP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- still image
- text
- Contents
- A tour of Berks County -- The Harvard years -- The talk of the town -- Welcome to Tarbox -- The two Iseults -- Couples -- Updike abroad -- Tarbox redux -- Marrying Martha -- Haven Hill -- The lonely fort -- Endpoint
- Control code
- 000052167402
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780061896453
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
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