John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and "Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d'esprit are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood Tree," a ...
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John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and "Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d'esprit are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood Tree," a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Times 's estimation, "the pre-eminent critic of his generation." Updike called this collection "motley but not unshapely." Some would call it a classic of its kind.
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Add this copy of Assorted Prose to cart. $92.41, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1965 by Andre Deutsch.
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None. Near Fine in Very Good Indeed jacket. The first collected edition of these critical essays and reviews by John Updike. Including Confessions of a Wild Bore, The Lucid Eye in Silvertown and many more. In a red cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is smart also, though with some handling marks to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with just some spotting to the textblock edge. Near Fine.
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Good. THE BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION PAGES ARE CLEAN PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS DATED 1965 SCRUFFS AROUND THE EDGES OF THE FRONT COVER THERES A LITTLE TEAR AND CREASE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BACK COVER Sold by the U. K Charity Kisharon Langdon. Offering Opportunities and Support for People within the Autism and Learning Disability Community.
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Fine in fine jacket. Octavo, 326pp. A crisp, clean, very good copy, with some spotting to the spine, else bright and clean internally. In a very good or better dust jacket, with only faint toning to the spine panel (less than is usually seen). A few tiny smudges and nicks.
