Hugging The Shore: Essays And Criticism
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A landmark collection of literary criticism, Hugging the Shore gathers John Updike's incisive essays and reviews written predominantly for The New Yorker throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. Updike brings his celebrated prose style to bear on an extraordinary range of writers — from Borges and Nabokov to Bellow and Barthes — offering authoritative, richly textured assessments that illuminate both the works and their authors. The collection argues, implicitly and explicitly, for the centrality of close, attentive reading as an act of both pleasure and intellectual rigour. Witty, erudite, and unfailingly precise, these pieces confirm Updike's standing not only as one of America's great novelists but as one of its finest literary critics. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1983, Hugging the Shore remains an essential volume for any serious reader of twentieth-century literature.
Author: John Updike
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Tight and intact. No stickers or price tags visible.
A landmark collection of literary criticism, Hugging the Shore gathers John Updike's incisive essays and reviews written predominantly for The New Yorker throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s. Updike brings his celebrated prose style to bear on an extraordinary range of writers — from Borges and Nabokov to Bellow and Barthes — offering authoritative, richly textured assessments that illuminate both the works and their authors. The collection argues, implicitly and explicitly, for the centrality of close, attentive reading as an act of both pleasure and intellectual rigour. Witty, erudite, and unfailingly precise, these pieces confirm Updike's standing not only as one of America's great novelists but as one of its finest literary critics. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1983, Hugging the Shore remains an essential volume for any serious reader of twentieth-century literature.