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  • Published: 30 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141903330
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 736
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Due Considerations




This collection of John Updike’s non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, ‘Everything Considered’, in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English and American contemporaries; as well as non-fiction topics from the sinking of the Lusitania to Coco Chanel's ‘unsinkable career’; tributes to legendary New Yorker figures, and much more.

A cruise through the cultural waters of the past decade with as delightful, witty, sensitive and articulate a guide as you could hope for, Due Considerations is a voyage not to be missed.

  • Published: 30 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141903330
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 736
Categories:

About the author

John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Praise for Due Considerations

The greatest writer of English prose alive

Sunday Times

Confirms his standing as an intellectual with the rigour of the late Edmund Wilson

Metro

His ability to generate sentences of consistently high quality remains unimpaired

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