How To Use Updike In A Sentence
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`Rabbit Redux' by John Updike
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There's nothing morally objectionable about this, but stories like the first one, "You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You," a coming-of-age vignette similar to Joyce's "Araby," but much less accomplished, or "In Football Season," an equally slight reminiscence of high school football games, are perhaps interesting enough to read in charting the development of John Updike's career but surely won't stand the test of time as short stories.
Updike, John
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Far too many of the stories are throw-aways (the second half of "Far Out," for example, consists of a series of overly cute exercises in whimsy that are, frankly, not worth the bother), and the order Updike has given them doesn't particularly do them credit or force us to consider him as a writer of short fiction in any new and more illuminating light.
Updike, John
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Updike's universe is populated with ‘the little ones,’ who, like so many of us, stumble through life in search of meaning.
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John Updike once wrote that he distrusted theories that explained men's behaviour in terms of them still being little boys.
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For almost half a century, Updike - modern America's peerless prose-poet of the everyday - has exhibited a dazzling flair for depicting actuality in all its sensuous vividness.
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Literary posterity will probably regard it as an interesting but failed experiment, taking Updike away from his usual themes and mileu, although not completely: its exploration of religious belief is consistent with much of his previous fiction, and the town of New Prospect, New Jersey could easily enough be a depiction of Brewer, Pennsylvania in its own decayed postindustrial latter days.
Updike, John
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In John Updike's "The Beauty of the Lilies," fictional Presbyterian minister Clarence Wilmot's faith founders on the "clifflike riddle of predestination.
Highway To Heaven
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While there have been many distinguished American winners, including Tom Wolfe and John Updike, bad sex veterans reserve a special place in their hearts for Norman Mailer, who won posthumously in 2007 for a passage in which the word "excrement" is used so alarmingly that it threatens to put a reader off sex for good.
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It was in reading Updike that I first saw how writing could be described as "lapidary": he is second to none as a prose stylist, although in an interview with the Times last fall he said that he didn't think of himself as a stylish writer, just one who wanted to get everything right, so that the reader would see the people and the world he was writing about exactly as he saw it.
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page
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One conference panelist, Sylvia Math é of the Universit é de Provence, pondered the inconceivability of Updike "being born in the West.
Keystone to Updike's Imagination
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Like Updike, Wilbur thinks of himself as a Protestant Christian, although the moral nerve of his poems is wide and unsectarian.
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John Updike wrote a one-paragraph essay about the beauty of the beer can before the invention of the pop-top.
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‘I think this is a bit beyond my ken,’ Updike says generously, before sheepishly moving on.
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John Updike is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.
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A dozen short stories precede the novella, a reminder that while Updike may not be the equal of, say, Carver, in that genre he has few equals among his contemporaries.
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William Pennington and Lisle Updike formed their business partnership about 1908 and opened a portrait studio in Durango, Colorado.
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In the early 1900s, William Pennington and Lisle Updike spent most days traveling the four corners area of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona in a wagon photographing the people and landscapes.
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Updike's critics would execute a kind of pincers movement.
The Millions
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By John Updike 2009 This collection draws together the stories John Updike wrote about Joan and Richard Maples over four decades, chronicling their marriage, adulteries and separation.
Betrayals Of Love
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To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer.
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While I wouldn't necessarily argue that Uris or Wouk have the same richness of language or psychological depth as, say, John Updike or Ian McEwan, they do offer a kind of capacious private world for the reader to move around in, a lush mental landscape that can only be found in books.
Peter Blauner: Where Have All The Middlebrows Gone?
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Although he is increasingly reviled these days for his purported stylistic preciosity, John Updike remains a writer I am able to read with pleasure because he successfully avoids inflicting such damage.
Point of View in Fiction
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It allows Wood to make the same kind of criticism that has always been made of Updike, but to dress it up in fancier crittalk ( "free indirect style"): Updike is too besotted with language.
Updike, John
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As in Updike's Rabbit novels, Villages provides, on a smaller scale, a breezy anatomization of American manners and mores over the last half-century.
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John Updike is a copious writer having a great influence on the contemporary American literary history.
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That the Toibin review is of a novel while the Updike review considers a collection of stories may partly account for the greater reliance on plot summary in the former (as well might various editorial policies of which we as readers of the review cannot finally be aware), but the temptation to "review" mostly by condensing story and making a few unsupported critical remarks is apparently an inherent feature of journalism-based book reviewing.
Book Reviewing
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Imagine Updike's Couples remixed by Brett Easton Ellis and you're halfway home.
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I can’t quite sit comfortably with the idea of Updike as a writer who is not interested in experimentalism.
On John Updike « Tales from the Reading Room
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But to see Keller looking older and sadder, as we all look and feel these days (at least the older part), made me reflect on the passage of time, its irreversible flow and thinning force, an Updikean reverie interrupted when our oldest ocicat planted himself squarely in front of me on the desk and made it vocally evident that it was time for his late-night treat.
James Wolcott's Blog
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John Updike, John Irving and the redoubtable Mailer believed the white-suited novelist had become overly concerned with the passing fads of the social scene.
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When John Updike began publishing short stories a milkshake cost 10 cents and a quarter kept a kid busy for a week.
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Updike's short story lines up four episodes, all told from a different point of view.