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Self-Consciousness : Memoirs by John Updike (1989, Hardcover)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10039457222X

ISBN-139780394572222

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038634964

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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

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.6 in

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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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by L575tbRZSt-@Deleted
Mar 24, 2020
Updike's summing up of his own psychology. Insightful and beautifully written
expected something drier. It isn't
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