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008			140603s2014 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a2013039246
020			_a9780061896453
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3571.P4 _bZ556 2013
082	0	0	_a92 UPD
100	1		_aBegley, Adam
245	1	0	_aUpdike _c/ Adam Begley
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York _b: HaperCollins Publishers _c, 2014
300			_a558 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aUpdike is Adam Begley's much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize - winning author John Updike -- a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small - town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities." Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life -- including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his first-hand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the bestselling Couples.
600	1	0	_aUpdike, John _d(1932-2009)
650		4	_aAuthors, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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