Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

By John Updike

Book Overview

In John Updike's second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early '70s. If... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812983807
• ISBN13: 9780812983807
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Vintage Updike

It's a shame that these earlier essays by Updike have gone out of print. While the style is slightly more "academic" than what would see in his next collection, Hugging the Shore, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the readings are no less startling in their breathtaking insights and sympathetic readings of a wide range of authors and their works. Updike is so at ease with all aspects of the language and the culture that reading him is like a guided tour into the greatest pleasure and deepest instincts of the the literary terrain of the time. Highly recommended, and a vote to reprint these essays for our own time.