Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

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Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

A collection both intimate and generous of the eloquent, insightful, beautifully written prose works that John Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009.

This collection of miscellaneous prose 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. It concludes with a moving meditation on a modern world robbed of imagination--a world without religion, without art--and on the difficulties of faith in a disbelieving age. In between are previously uncollected stories and poems, a pageant of scenes from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, five late "golf dreams," and several of Updike's commentaries on his own work. At the heart of the book are his matchless reviews--of John Cheever, Ann Patchett, Toni Morrison, William Maxwell, John le CarrÃ©, and essays on Aimee Semple McPherson, Max Factor, and Albert Einstein, among others. Also included are two decades of art criticism--on Chardin, El Greco, Blake, Turner, Van Gogh, Max Ernest, and more.

Updike's criticism is gossip of the highest order, delivered in an intimate and generous voice.

Country	USA
Author	John Updike
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780307957153
Edition	First Edition
Format	Deckle Edge
ISBN	0307957152
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	528
PublicationDate	2011-11-01
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2011-11-01
SKU	9780307957153
Studio	Knopf

Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

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