Includes bibliographical references and index
On John Updike / Bernard F. Rodgers, JrBiography of John Updike / Debra Shostak -- The Paris review perspective / Robert Roper for The Paris review -- Gentile on my mind : Updike, Bech, and the limits of ethnic representation / Derek Parker Royal -- Shaping graces : John Updike, middleness, and the American experience / James Plath -- Updike and Howells / James A. Schiff -- The critical reception of John Updike / Jack De Bellis -- The Pennsylvania thing : Pigeon feathers/The centaur / William H. Pritchard -- Updike's American comedies / Joyce Carol Oates -- Introducing the Maples / Alice and Kenneth Hamilton -- The Rabbit tetralogy : from solitude to society to solitude again / Matthew Wilson -- The trouble with Harry : Rabbit at rest / Hermione Lee -- Granting the individual soul its due / Peter J. Bailey -- Inside America / Marshall Boswell -- Updike's Scarlet letter trilogy : recasting an American myth / James A. Schiff -- Going south : Bech at bay and before / Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr -- God goes to the movies : In the beauty of the lilies / A.O. Scott -- In desire's grip : gender, politics, and intertextual games in Updike's Gertrude and Claudius / Laura Elena Savu -- The modesty of John Updike / David Heddendorf -- A fan's notes : on Updike's long game / Adam Gopnik -- Resources -- Chronology of John Updike's life -- Works by John Updike -- Bibliography.
Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr: On John Updike
Debra Shostak: Biography of John Updike
Robert Roper for The Paris review: The Paris review perspective
Derek Parker Royal: Gentile on my mind : Updike, Bech, and the limits of ethnic representation
James Plath: Shaping graces : John Updike, middleness, and the American experience
James A. Schiff: Updike and Howells
Jack De Bellis: The critical reception of John Updike
William H. Pritchard: The Pennsylvania thing : Pigeon feathers/The centaur
Joyce Carol Oates: Updike's American comedies
Alice and Kenneth Hamilton: Introducing the Maples
Matthew Wilson: The Rabbit tetralogy : from solitude to society to solitude again
Hermione Lee: The trouble with Harry : Rabbit at rest
Peter J. Bailey: Granting the individual soul its due
Marshall Boswell: Inside America
James A. Schiff: Updike's Scarlet letter trilogy : recasting an American myth
Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr: Going south : Bech at bay and before
A.O. Scott: God goes to the movies : In the beauty of the lilies
Laura Elena Savu: In desire's grip : gender, politics, and intertextual games in Updike's Gertrude and Claudius
David Heddendorf: The modesty of John Updike
Adam Gopnik: A fan's notes : on Updike's long game
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