John Updike. (2011). Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism. Random House Publishing Group.

John Updike. 2011. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism. Random House Publishing Group.

John Updike, Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

John Updike. Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

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This collection of miscellaneous prose 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. It concludes with a moving meditation on a modern world robbed of imagination—a world without religion, without art—and on the difficulties of faith in a disbelieving age.
In between are previously uncollected stories and poems, a pageant of scenes from seventeenth-century Massachusetts, five late “golf dreams,” and several of Updike's commentaries on his own work. At the heart of the book are his matchless reviews—of John Cheever, Ann Patchett, Toni Morrison, William Maxwell, John le Carré, and essays on Aimee Semple McPherson, Max Factor, and Albert Einstein, among others. Also included are two decades of art criticism—on Chardin, El Greco, Blake, Turner, Van Gogh, Max Ernest, and more.
Updike’s criticism is gossip of the highest order, delivered in an intimate and generous voice.

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