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A Collection Of The Eloquent, Insightful, And Beautifully Written Prose Works That Updike Was Compiling When He Died In January 2009, This Book Opens With A Self-portrait Of The Writer In Winter--a Prospero Who, Though He Fears His Most Dazzling Performances Are Behind Him, Reveals Himself In Every Sentence To Be In Deep Conversation With The Sources Of His Magic. Real Conversation -- The Writer In Winter -- A Desert Encounter -- Nessus At Noon -- The Football Factory -- The Beloved -- The Lens Factory -- Five Poems : Basium Xvi ; Head Of A Girl, At The Met ; Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital ; An Hour Without Color ; Not Cancelled Yet -- Book Chat -- Humor In Fiction -- Lives And Laurels : Soren Kierkegaard ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ernest Hemingway ; Kurt Vonnegut ; L. E. Sissman ; Raymond Carver -- Forewords And Afterwords : The Haunted Major, By Robert Marshall ; The Complete Lyrics Of Cole Porter, Edited By Robert Kimball ; The Luzhin Defense, By Vladimir Nabokov ; The Best American Short Stories Of The Century, Edited By John Updike And Katrina Kenison -- Works And Days : The Changeling ; Back-chat, Funny Cracks ; Imperishable Maxwell ; Basically Decent -- Fiction Now : Hugger-

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Author

John Updike

Publisher

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307957177

Category

art

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.89 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14