By the time he was 28, John Updike had published a collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Over the next four decades he continued in these forms, along with criticism and reviews of literature and painting; in memoirs; and in commentary on his own writing. This absorbing book takes Updike's life, as well as his voluminous oeuvre, as its subject.
By the time he was 28, John Updike had published a collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Over the next four decades he continued in these forms, along with criticism and reviews of literature and painting; in memoirs; and in commentary on his own writing. This absorbing book takes Updike's life, as well as his voluminous oeuvre, as its subject.