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John Updike : collected later stories
\"Of the eighty-four stories gathered here, fifty-three first appeared in The New Yorker. Most were revised by the author for his collections Problems (1979), Trust Me (1987), The Afterlife (1994), Licks of Love (2000), and My Father's Tears (2009). All were written from 1976 to 2008, when Updike was in his mid-forties to mid-seventies, and are arranged here, for the first time, in the order in which they were completed. Each is offered in its latest, definitive text, and some incorporate posthumous corrections found in Updike's personal copies of his books\"-- Jacket.
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Marquez begins 'one hundred years of popularity' ; The master of magic realism revisits his childhood to embroider a personal myth
In 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Latin America's premier conjurer of tales, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy called their new laureate \"a rare storyteller, richly endowed with a material, from both imagination and experience, that seems inexhaustible,\" and praised him for creating, in the fictional Colombian coastal town of Macondo, \"a world of his own,\" a densely populated, rainforest-lush landscape in which Faulkner and folk tale, high art and low comedy, and the miraculous and the mundane combine. Marquez begins his story not with his birth, in 1928, but with his \"real\" birth - his \"birth as a writer\" - at age 22. It was then that he accompanied his mother on a two-day trip from Baranquilla, where he was barely scraping by as a cub reporter, to his childhood home in Aracataca, a ghost town near the Caribbean coast surrounded by swamps and deserted banana plantations. Marquez was not the only writer to have found a means of ending this solitude, of course, but none of his South American contemporaries, not even Borges or Neruda, has reached a wider audience. The title \"Living to Tell the Tale\" is perfect, because it sums up two aspects of Marquez's personal mythology, both of which figure into nearly every page of this autobiography: first, that like Scheherezade, he escaped the daily threat of extinction only through his cunning as a storyteller, and second, that he is a kind of chosen one, a Jonah coughed up by the South American Leviathan and elected by fate to be the mouthpiece of his people.
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Higher gossip : essays and criticism
A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book 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.
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Bookshelf: The quiet stories of a master miniaturist
Christopher Carduff reviews \"All the Days and Nights,\" a book of short stories by William Maxwell.
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Marquez begins 'one hundred years of popularity'
In 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Latin America's premier conjurer of tales, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy called their new laureate \"a rare storyteller, richly endowed with a material, from both imagination and experience, that seems inexhaustible,\" and praised him for creating, in...
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