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STILL LOOKING. ESSAYS ON AMERICAN ART Hardcover - 2006

by Updike, John

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
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John Updike, moonlighting as art critic, now gathers together in this richly illustrated book 18 of his remarkable pieces, all dealing with American art.

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NY: Knopf, 2006. First edition, second prnt. Signed by Updike on the title page. Introduction. Index. Color and black and white illustrations. Spine slightly slanted; dustjacket with quarter-inch closed tear on rear panel topedge (not immediately apparent) and touched corners. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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  • Title STILL LOOKING. ESSAYS ON AMERICAN ART
  • Author Updike, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf, NY
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 91325
  • ISBN 9781400044184 / 1400044189
  • Weight 2.38 lbs (1.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.37 x 8.15 x 0.9 in (26.34 x 20.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004061568
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.73

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From the publisher

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker and since 1957 has lived in Massachusetts. He is the author of more than fifty books, including collections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howells Medal.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2005, Page 18
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2006, Page 6
  • Choice, 06/01/2006, Page 1816
  • Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 42
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2005, Page 964
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2005, Page 76
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/01/2005, Page 55
  • New York Review of Books, 06/22/2006, Page 60

About the author

JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.

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