More Matter: Essays and Criticism - Tapa blanda

"More Matter attests to Mr. Updike's remarkable versatility and to his ardent drive to turn all his observations into glittering, gossamer prose. . . . In his strongest pieces, Mr. Updike's awesome pictorial powers of description combine with a rigorous, searching intelligence to produce essays of enormous tactile power and conviction."--The New York Times

"Our most productive critic, certainly; and also, as it happens, our finest . . . In this wide-ranging collection . . . there are both matter and art enough to satisfy the most demanding reader."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"More Matter will leave even his closest followers amazed. . . . Updike can write about anything, in any form and at any length, and do it with intelligence and knowledge and grace and agility and wit--and oh, the prose."--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

In his fiftieth book and fifth collection of prose, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist presents a rich range of essays, criticism, humorous observations, and introductions, as he shares his thoughts on religion and literature, twentieth-century New York writing, and his own life and work. Reprint.