John Updike : a collection of critical essays / edited by David Thorburn and Howard Eiland.

Contributor Thorburn, David.

Imprint:Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, c1979.

Descriptionix, 222 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:"A Spectrum book."

Note:Includes index.

Note:An image of precarious life / Richard Gilman. - Rabbit Angstrom's unseen world / Dean Doner. - Rabbit's progress / Richard Locke. - Updike, Malamud, and the Fire this time / Robert Alter. - Updike's American comedies / Joyce Carol Oates. - Play in "Couples" / Howard Eiland. - Post-pill paradise lost: "Couples" / David Lodge. - "A month of Sundays": scarlet letters / George Steiner. - Updike as matchmaker: "Marry me" / Josephine Hendin. - "The poorhouse fair": a fragile vision of specialness / Joyce Markle. - "The centaur": epic paean and pastoral lament / Larry E. Taylor. - A note on character in "The Centaur" / Martin Price. - Shrine and sanctuary: "Of the farm" / Edward P. Vargo. - Family quarrels in "Of the farm" / Charles Thomas Samuels. - Updike in Africa / Robert Towers. - Boy's life / Deborah McGill. - "The same door": unexpected gifts / Robert Detweiler. - Memory in "Pigeon feathers" / Arthur Mizener. - Updike's search for liturgy / Michael Novak. - "The music school" : a place of resonance / Charles Thomas Samuels. - Keeping up with Updike: "Bech: a book" / Jack Richardson. - At the flashpoint: "Museums and women" / Rosemary Dinnage. - Disengagement in "Museums and women" / Richard Todd.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 218-220.

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