| Self-Consciousness Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812982967 ISBN-13: 9780812982961 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.49" W x 8.24" (0.47 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: John Updike's memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his foreword states, "to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world." In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest, matchlessly precise, and self-effacingly humorous. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, and beyond self-importance, into sheer wonder at the miracle of existence. |