Understanding John Updike Svoboda Paperback MP–SCA Uni of South Carolina

Understanding John UpdikeAuthor(s): Frederic Svoboda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of South Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: University of South Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781643360966, 978-1643360966\nSynopsis\nThe winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike [tel] was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and fall of midcentury American self-confidence and energy. A superb stylist with sixty books to his credit, he brilliantly rendered the physical surfaces of the nation's life even as he revealed the intense longings beneath those surfaces. In Understanding John Updike, Frederic Svoboda elucidates the author's deep insights into the second half of the twentieth century as seen through the lives of ordinary men and women. He offers extended close readings of Updike's most significant works of fiction, templates through which his entire oeuvre may be [url] small-town Pennsylvan.