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Self-Consciousness : Memoirs by John Updike (1989, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10039457222X
ISBN-139780394572222
eBay Product ID (ePID)8038634964
Product Key Features
Book TitleSelf-Consciousness : Memoirs
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs, Literary, American / General, Essays
Publication Year1989
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.7 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-013022
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisJohn Updike's memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and sense of self. These essays together give the inner shape of a life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. He 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 and beautifully eloquent, not to say, in a number of places, self-effacingly funny. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, into sheer wonder at the world and its fabric.
LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4Z475 1989
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