Book description
More Matter is a lively discussion of essays by Pulitzer
prizewinner John Updike.
A rich collection of John Updike's best-loved essays, critical
writings and reflections. Wide ranging, incisive, witty and always
superbly written, More Matter has something to say about almost
everyone - from Graham Greene to Bill Gates to Mickey Mouse - and
everything - from sexual politics to spiritual matters to unopenable
packages. It provides any number of intimate glimpses into how this
remarkable mind works.
Praise for More Matter:
'Unlike most journalism, Updike's occasional writing is so exquisite
as to repay multiple readings' Publishers Weekly
'More Matter attests to Mr. Updike's remarkable versatility
and to his ardent drive to turn all his observations into glittering,
gossamer prose. . . . In his strongest pieces, Mr. Updike's awesome
pictorial powers of description combine with a rigorous, searching
intelligence to produce essays of enormous tactile power and
conviction' New York Times
'More Matter will leave even his closest followers amazed. .
. . Updike can write about anything, in any form and at any length,
and do it with intelligence and knowledge and grace and agility and
wit-and oh, the prose' Pittsburgh Tribune Review
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He
graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at
the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and
nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the
Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics
Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He
graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford, at
the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels, stories, and
nonfiction collections have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer
Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award,
the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
