John Updike: A Life in Letters, Gebunden
A Life in Letters
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- Verlag:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 11/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241707586
- Artikelnummer:
- 11973428
- Umfang:
- 880 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 750 g
- Maße:
- 240 x 156 mm
- Stärke:
- 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 6.11.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers - a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days
In the words of his contemporary, Philip Roth, John Updike was 'Our time's greatest man of letters - as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short-story writer'.
Over the course of his long and immensely productive career, he also proved himself a brilliant correspondent, his letters filled with comic observations, opinions and personal news, told in his characteristically elegant and exquisitely fluid style.
In this sparkling selection of his letters, edited by James Schiff, we can see Updike in real time, capturing every stage of his unspooling life, from Pennsylvania farm boy to Pulitzer prizewinner; and from young father negotiating his first book contract to the bestselling writer he became, following the international success of his novels Couples and the 'Rabbit 'sequence.
Here are letters to family, friends, editors and lovers, a remarkable outpouring over six decades - including, most movingly perhaps, the letters of his final year bidding farewell to children, colleagues and friends.
Taken together, these missives make a page-turning 'life in letters' like no other - an intimate testament to one of the greatest of all American writers.
'Nobody has a better understanding of the capriciousness of the human heart than John Updike' Daily Telegraph 'He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J. D. Salinger, with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather' James Wood 'John Updike mapped our desires, our wishes, our wise and unwise dreams, our uncertainties, with such elegant precision and for so many years' The Times
Biografie
John Updike, geboren 1932 in Shillington/Pennsylvania; Kindheit in materieller Bedrücktheit; 1950 Stipendium zum Studium am Harvard College, Hauptfach Anglistik; Abschluss des Untergraduiertenstudiums 1954 mit summa cum laude. 1953 Heirat mit der Kunststudentin Mary Entwistle Pennington, mit ihr zusammen - nach dem Studium - ein Jahr an die Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford/England. Rückkehr in die USA. 1955 - 57 fest angestellt beim Magazin 'The New Yorker', danach freier Mitarbeiter mit Veröffentlichung von Kurzgeschichten sowie einflussreicher literarischer Kritiken. 1957 Umzug nach Ipswich im neuenglischen Massachusetts. 1964 Vortragsreisen durch die UdSSR, Rumänien, Bulgarien und Tschechien. Seit 1964 Mitglied des National Institute of Arts and Letters. 1973 Fulbright-Lektor in Afrika. 1976 Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Letters. Auszeichnungen: 1983 Lincoln Literary Award und Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist Award, 1988 St. Louis Literary Award, 1989 National Medal of Arts, 1991 Premio Scanno, 1993 Common Wealth Award und Conch Republic Prize for Literature, 1995 Commandeur de l'ordre des arts et des lettres und The Howells Medal from the Adademy of Arts and Letters. John Updike verstarb 2009.