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Due Considerations

By John Updike

eBook | 9780141903330

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This collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, Everything Considered, in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by EngContinue

This collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, Everything Considered, in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English and American contemporaries; as well as non-fiction topics from the sinking of the Lusitania to Coco Chanel's unsinkable career; tributes to legendary New Yorker figures, and much more.



A cruise through the cultural waters of the past decade with as delightful, witty, sensitive and articulate a guide as you could hope for, Due Considerations is a voyage not to be missed.

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  • The man who likes to say yes

    Due Considerations by John Updike Hamish Hamilton £30, pp703 Has John Updike ever said no? That question dogged my progress through this sixth volume of his essays and criticism, which collects another eight years' worth of occasional prose. There is ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism, by John Updike

    The definitive review of Updike's criticism is Martin Amis's, reprinted in The War Against Cliché. In it he paid due tribute to Updike's industry (the volume is "cuboid") and omniscience: "John Updike even knows what's going on in a novel by Iris Mur ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • eBook 736 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0141903333
  • ISBN-13: 9780141903330
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Pub date: Oct 30, 2008
  • Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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