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Assorted Prose (Paperback)
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Assorted Prose (Paperback)
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John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in
1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and
illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's
youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and
"Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition
to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These "jeux
d'esprit "are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal
account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood
Tree," a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and
five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume
are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett,
and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go
on to become, in "The New York Times"'s estimation, "the
pre-eminent critic of his generation." Updike called this
collection "motley but not unshapely." Some would call it a classic
of its kind.
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