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Assorted prose
- Title
- Assorted prose / John Updike.
- Author
- Updike, John.
- Publication
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 267 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing.
- Uniform Title
- Prose works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Prose works.
- Subject
- Contents
- American man : what of him? -- Anywhere is where you hang you hat -- What is a rhyme? -- Drinking from a cup made cinchy -- On the sidewalk -- Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize -- Confessions of a wild bore -- Unread book route -- Alphonse Peintre -- Mr. Ex-resident -- Central Park -- No dodo -- Voices in the Biltmore -- Our own Baedeker -- Postal complaints -- Old and precious -- Spatial remarks -- Dinosaur egg -- Upright carpentry -- Crush vs. whip -- Métro gate -- Cancelled -- Morality play -- Obfuscating coverage -- Bryant Park -- John Marquand -- Two heroes -- Doomsday, Mass. -- Grandma Moses -- Spring rain -- Eisenhower's eloquence -- Mostly glass -- Three documents -- Free bee-hours -- Beer can -- Modern art -- Assassination -- T.S. Eliot -- Hub fans bid kid adieu -- Dogwood tree : a boyhood -- Lucid eye in silver town -- My uncle's death -- Outing : a family anecdote -- Mea culpa : a travel note -- Eclipse -- Poetry from Downtroddendom -- Snow from a dead sky -- Franny and Zooey -- Credos and curios -- Beerbohm and others -- Rhyming Max -- No use talking -- Stuffed fox -- Honest horn -- Faith in search of understanding -- Tillich -- More love in the western world -- Foreword for young readers -- Creatures of the air -- Between a wedding and a funeral -- How How it is was -- Grandmaster Nabokov.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-8406
- ISBN
- 9780812983777 (pbk.)
- 0812983777 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 815518753
- Author
- Updike, John.
- Title
- Assorted prose / John Updike.
- Imprint
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012.
- Edition
- 2012 Random House Trade Paperback ed.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-8406