Author:
Updike, John.
Edition Statement:[1st ed.]
Imprint:New York : Knopf, 1965.
Descriptionxii, 326 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:PARODIES: The American man: what of him? - Anywhere is where you hang your hat.- What is a rhyme? - Drinking from a cup made cinchy. - On the sidewalk. - Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize. - Confessions of a wild bore. - The unread book route. - Alphonse Peintre. - Mr. Ex- President. -- FIRST PERSON PLURAL: Central Park. - No dodo. - Voices in the Biltmore. - Our own Baedeker. - Postal complaints. - Old and precious. - Spatial remarks. - Dinosaur egg. - Upright carpentry. - Crush vs. whip. - Metro gate. - Cancelled. - Morality play. - Obfuscating coverage. - Bryant Park. - John Marquand. - Two heroes. - Doomsday, Mass. - Grandma Moses. - Spring rain. - Eisenhower's eloquence. - Mostly glass. - Three documents. - Free bee-hours. - Beer can. - Modern art. - The assassination. - T.S. Eliot. -- HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU. -- FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: The dogwood tree: a boyhood. - The lucid eye in Silver Town. - My uncle's death. - Outing: a family anecdote. - Mea culpa: a travel note. - Eclipse. -- REVIEWS: Poetry from downtroddendom. - Snow from a dead sky.- Franny and Zooey. - Credos and curios. - Beerbohm and others. - Rhyming Max. - No use talking. - Stuffed fox. - Honest horn. - Faith in search of understanding. - Tillich. - More love in the Western world. - A foreword for young readers. - Creatures of the air.- Between a wedding and a funeral. - How how it it was. - Grandmaster Nabokov.
