Book description
This collection of John Updike's non-fiction writings includes a
delightful preface, 'Everything Considered', in which he tells of his
lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith;
introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign
writers and new books by English and American contemporaries; as well
as non-fiction topics from the sinking of the Lusitania to Coco
Chanel's 'unsinkable career'; tributes to legendary New Yorker
figures, and much more.
A cruise through the cultural waters of the past decade with as
delightful, witty, sensitive and articulate a guide as you could hope
for, Due Considerations is a voyage not to be missed.
His ability to generate sentences of consistently high quality
remains unimpaired John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington,
Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year
in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From
1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of
The New Yorker
and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the
Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the
National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the Howells
Medal.
