Hugging the Shore
by Updike, John
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. 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. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
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NY: Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. 919pp. First Edition. Signed and dated by Updike on the front free end paper. VG/NF. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt and silver spine titles and a grey topstain. Softening to spine ends, light off-setting to interior gutters, some quite light foxing to the deckled fore-edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x8. First edition. Faint edge wear. 1983 Hard Cover. 919 pp. Composed chiefly of Updike's book reviews of the past eight years, this collection includes pieces on Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, and Muriel Spark, on actresses Doris Day and Louise Brooks and an appendix of imaginary interviews,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hugging the Shore
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 919 pages. Thick collection of essays and criticisms. A near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears and some creasing to the front flap. Still, a very nice copy. Item Price
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Hugging the Shore : Essays and Criticism
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Hugging the Shore
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Hugging The Shore: Essays and Criticism
by UPDIKE, John
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