- Home
- » Hugging the shore: essays and criticism
Hugging the shore: essays and criticism
Author
Publisher
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Publication Date
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language
English
Description
Loading Description...
More Details
Contributors
Updike, John Author
ISBN
9780394531793
9780679645849
9780679645849
Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
Person and Place
Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans
The Pal
One's Neighbor's Wife
The Running Mate
The Counsellor
The Golf Course Owner
The Child Bride
The Mailman
The Widow
The Undertaker
The Bankrupt Man
The Tarbox Police
Venezuela for Visitors
The Chaste Planet
Invasion of the Book Envelopes
Golf Dreams
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters
New England
The First Kiss
Out There
Going Barefoot
Common Land
New England Churches
A Mild Complaint
Other People's Books
Three Talks on American Masters
Hawthorne's Creed
Melville's Withdrawal
Whitman's Egotheism
Letters
The Bear Who Hated Life
Simple-Minded Jim
Advancing Over Water
Nothing Is Easy
An Armful of Field Flowers
Hem Battles the Pack; Wins, Loses
The Doctor's Son
The Shining Note
Wilson and Nabokov
Edmund Wilson's Fiction: A Personal Account
An Earlier Day
The Cuckoo and the Rooster
An Introduction to Nabokov's Lectures
The Fancy-Forger Takes the Lectern
Proud Happiness
Vale, VN
Bellow, Vonnegut, Tyler, Le Guin, Cheever
Draping Radiance with a Worn Veil
Toppling Tower Seen by a Whirling Soul
All's Well in Skyscraper National Park
Family Ways
Loosened Roots
Imagining Things
On Such a Beautiful Green Little Planet
Some British
Jake and Lolly Opt Out
Indestructible Elena
An Introduction to Three Novels by Henry Green
Green Green
Through the Mid-Life Crisis with James Boswell, Esq.
Spark, Murdoch, Trevor, Drabble
Topnotch Witcheries
Worlds and Worlds
Drabbling in the Mud
Of Heresy and Loot
Coming into Her Own
Some Irish
Small Cheer from the Old Sod
Flann Again
An Old-Fashioned Novel
Jarry, Queneau, Celine, Pinget
Human Capacities
Thirty-four Years Late, Twice
The Strange Case of Dr. Destouches and M. Celine
Robert Pinget
Northern Europeans
A Primal Modern
Saddled with the World
Scheherazade
Brecht's Dicta
Discontent in Deutsch
Disaffection in Deutsch
Calvino, Grass, Boll
Metropolises of the Mind
Card Tricks
Readers and Writers
Fish Story
The Squeeze Is On
Eastern Europeans
Polish Metamorphoses
Czarist Shadows, Soviet Lilacs
Czech Angels
Lem and Pym, Stead and Jones
Lem and Pym
Selda, Lilia, Great Gram, and Other Ladies in Distress
Eva and Eleanor and Everywoman
Some Nachtmusik, From All Over
No Dearth of Death
Dark Smile, Devilish Saints
Layers of Ambiguity
Stalled Starters
Frontiersmen
Barthes, Berlin, Cioran
Roland Barthes
Texts and Men
The Last of Barthes
A Monk Manque
Poets
The Heaven of an Old Home
Alone but Not Aloof
Owlish and Fishy
Sissman's Prose
Sissman's Poetry
Three Poems on Being a Poet, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Stand Fast I Must
Tales
Magic Mirrors
Fiabe Italiane
A Feast of Reason
Happy on Nono Despite Odosha
The World Called Third
African Accents
Mixed Reports from the Interior
Journeyers
Raman and Daisy and Olivia and the Nawah
India Going On
The Far East
Spent Arrows and First Buddings
From Fumie to Sony
The Giant Who Isn't There
The Long and Reluctant Stasis of Wan-li
Art and Act
Gaiety in the Galleries
Tote That Quill
Wright on Writing
Borges Warmed Over
Pinter's Unproduced Proust Printed
Suzie Creamcheese Speaks
Female Pilgrims
Long Views
A Cloud of Witnesses
Who Wants to Know?
To the Tram Halt Together.
Excerpt
Loading Excerpt...
Author Notes
Loading Author Notes...
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Loading Staff View.