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10753229 |
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IIITD |
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20170531113153.0 |
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131104s2014 nyuaf b 001 0beng |
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2013039246 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780061896453 |
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(OCoLC)ocn862148834 |
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(OCoLC)862148834 |
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(OCoLC)850180343 |
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(OCoLC)875694668 |
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(NNC)10753229 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
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rda |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
920.9813 |
| Edition number |
23 |
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BEG-U |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Begley, Adam |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Updike |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Adam Begley. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harper Perennial, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
©2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 558p : |
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ill ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
A tour of Berks County -- The Harvard years -- The talk of the town -- Welcome to Tarbox -- The two Iseults -- Couples -- Updike abroad -- Tarbox redux -- Marrying Martha -- Haven Hill -- The lonely fort -- Endpoint. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike--a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work.In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities."Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life--including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling Couples.With a sharp critical sensibility that lends depth and originality to his analysis, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works--from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy--and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character fraught with contradictions: a kind man with a vicious wit, a gregarious charmer who was ruthlessly competitive, a private person compelled to spill his secrets on the printed page. Updike offers an admiring yet balanced look at this national treasure, a master whose writing continues to resonate like no one else's"-- |
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Biography - Authors, American |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. |
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bisacsh |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. |
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bisacsh |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. |
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bisacsh |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
