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\"Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, 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.\"Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at The New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. 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.With a sharp critical sensibility that lends depth and originality to his analysis, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works--from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy--and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character fraught with contradictions: a kind man with a vicious wit, a gregarious charmer who was ruthlessly competitive, a private person compelled to spill his secrets on the printed page. Updike offers an admiring yet balanced look at this national treasure, a master whose writing continues to resonate like no one else's\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Pilgrim in Craceland
Though he claims to be very private, even secretive, Jim Crace doesn't avoid contact with journalists and critics. The real problem for the would-be biographer is that on the pages of Jim Crace's novels there are very few clues as to what he himself is like; and only an especially gymnastic critic could show how the life accounts for the work. This pleases Crace; he's proud of it.
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اليقين : هذا الكتاب هو بمثابة دليل مصور وذو محتوى مكثف عن الشخصيات ذات العقليات المتحجرة في الماضي والحاضر...
هذا الكتاب هو بمثابة دليل مصور وذو محتوى مكثف عن الشخصيات ذات العقليات المتحجرة في الماضي والحاضر. في بعض الأحيان، كل ما نملكه هو شجاعة قناعاتنا، لكن ليست كل القناعات متساوية في الواقع، البعض موهوم تماما، وبمجرد أن تغرس فكرة حمقاء أسنانها في المشاهير أو الأقوياء، انتبه - يمكن أن يكون للتأثير عواقب وخيمة على بقيتنا. لذلك، ليس أقل من الشعور بالرضا عندما يصر القادة البارزون لدينا الأكثر عنادا وصدقا على شق طريقهم فقط ليتم إثبات خطأهم بشكل محرج بشكل فاضح. من السياسيين إلى الباباوات، ومن نجوم السينما إلى الأقطاب، ومن الفنانين إلى المخترعين، يقدم كتاب \"اليقين\" رسومات قصيرة عن السيرة الذاتية لأفراد معروفين بالعناد والذين كانوا متأكدين من أنهم على حق-مع نتائج مثيرة للضحك، ومزعجة، وكارثية في كثير من الأحيان. كسب مكانة بين أعظم الرؤساء التاريخيين والمعاصرين إن كتاب اليقين هو كتاب غني بالمعلومات، وغير مجامل، وموضح ببراعة من قبل رسام الكاريكاتير إدوارد سوريل، وهو كتاب لعصرنا.
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Don DeLillo: Americana, Mao II, and Underworld
Begley examines Don DeLillo's novel \"Underworld.\" DeLillo is an important writer because he has imagined the world to come, a world in which people will lose the old habit of believing that language is the indispensable vehicle of thought.
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REVIEW --- Books -- Five Best: A Personal Choice: Adam Begley --- on mighty mothers
Ora, a mother splendidly composed of contradictory elements -- ignorance, wisdom, generosity, neediness, impatience, endurance, cowardice, courage -- decides that the way to keep her son, Ofer, alive (he's fighting with the Israel Defense Forces) is to avoid notification of his death.
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Lunch with Peter Kaplan: Adam Begley Remembers
If it's a pretty, sun-dappled day, Peter's enthusiasm about the city mounts as we approach Madison Avenue, then bursts out, once we've turned north, in jubilant appreciation of the pretty women we pass on the on the way to 67th. Movie stars, the lyrics of show tunes, my love life between marriages, about which he was relentlessly curious--it never mattered what the topic was.
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