updike in A Sentence

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    The John Updike Society First Biennial Conference.

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    Birthdays this weekend include John Updike, ….

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    I get a call form Tom Updike.

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    Updike denied the suggestion in a letter to the paper.

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    It is considered the most successful novel of Updike's late career.

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    Updike later called Rabbit"a brother to me, and a good friend.

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    Updike's early Olinger period was set in the Pennsylvania of his youth;

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    Updike once described Rabbit as his“ticket to the America all around me.”.

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    McEwan said the Rabbit series is Updike's"masterpiece and will surely be his monument", and concluded:.

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    Updike continued to explore the issues that confront middle-class America, such as fidelity, religion, and responsibility.

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    McEwan concluded that the Rabbit series is Updike's"masterpiece and will surely be his monument", and describing it, concluded:.

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    In 2008 Updike published The Widows of Eastwick, a return to the witches in their old age.

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    Updike's art criticism often appeared in The New York Review of Books, where he frequently wrote about American art.

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    Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry"could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible";

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    The beauty of Updike's language and his faith in the power of that language floats above reality, according to Wood:.

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    After his early novels, Updike became most famous for his chronicling infidelity, adultery, and marital unrest, especially in suburban America;

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    In response to the cultural shifts that occurred in the United States after the September 11 attacks, Updike released Terrorist in 2006.

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    The Coupa lauded[24] novel about an African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made to Africa, found Updike working in new territory.

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    Updike can be honest about it, and his descriptions of the sight, taste and texture of women's bodies can be perfect little madrigals.

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    Updike found it difficult to end the book, because he was"having so much fun" in the imaginary county Rabbit and his family inhabited.

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    The Coup(1978), a lauded[25] novel about an African dictatorship inspired by a visit he made to Africa, found Updike working in new territory.

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    Adam Gopnik concludes that"Updike's great subject was the American attempt to fill the gap left by faith with the materials produced by mass culture.

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    In Champion's interview with Updike on The Bat Segundo Show, Updike replied that he perhaps favored such imagery to concretize and make sex"real" in his prose.

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    Updike stayed at The New Yorker as a full staff writer for only two years, writing"Talk of the Town" columns and submitting poetry and short stories to the magazine.

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    In a novel like this, Updike insisted, you have to be generous and allow your characters eloquence,“and not chop them down to what you think is the right size”.

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    Updike's memoir indicates that he stayed in his"corner of New England to give its domestic news" with a focus on the American home from the point of view of a male writer.

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    Describing his subject as „the American small town, Protestant middle class”, Updike was recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output- he wrote on average a book a year.

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    Some have suggested that the"best statement of Updike's aesthetic comes in his early memoir'The Dogwood Tree'"(1962):"Blankness is not emptiness; we may skate upon an intense radiance we do not see because we see nothing else.

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    Updike's highly distinctive prose style features a rich, unusual, sometimes arcane vocabulary as conveyed through the eyes of"a wry, intelligent authorial voice" that extravagantly describes the physical world, while remaining squarely in the realist tradition.

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    The noted critic James Wood called Updike"a prose writer of great beauty, but that prose confronts one with the question of whether beauty is enough, and whether beauty always conveys all that a novelist must convey.".

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