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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 UPDUpdike, John.
Summary: Eighteen essays of art criticism cover early American portraiture and landscape painting, late-nineteenth-century masters Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and the work of such artists as James McNeill Whistler and Alfred Stieglitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Summary: Roger's version (1986): Roger Lambert, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is stuck in his office by Dale Kohler, a young computer scientist who believes that technical advances in computing shows evidence of God's existence. Then a theological-scientific debate ensues, and Roger employs wicked strategies to disembarrass Dale of his faith. But Dale's passion turns to his erotic attraction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDUpdike, John.
Contents: What MoMA done tole me -- A city frieze -- An outdoor Vermeer -- The apple's fresh weight -- A case of overestimation -- The child within -- American children -- Something missing -- Field's luminous folk -- A case of solicitude -- Is art worth it -- A mischievous Monet -- Reluctant butterfly -- Some rectangles of blue -- Violence at the windows -- Moving along -- A case of melancholia -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA 2001
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Summary: In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" ("The New York Times Book Review"). " Always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5408 UPDUpdike, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC UPDUpdike, John
Summary: "Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this beautiful picture book featuring twelve poems about a family and the turn of the seasons. From the short, frozen days of January, through the light of summer, to the first snowflakes of December, Updike's poems rejoices in the familiar, wondrous qualities that make each part of the year unique. Hyman's award-winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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Summary: A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 UPDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 UPDUpdike, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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Summary: John Updike's sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading "General Considerations," books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007