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May 10, 2014 · In a television documentary, his son David said that for his father writing took “precedence over his relations with real people” and the assumption is that Updike was so committed to his ...
Mar 26, 2014 · That was his job, Updike might have shrugged, a profitable trick of alchemy. ... at an early age that his writing had to take precedence over his relations with real people.” Later in the film ...
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Mar 11, 2014 · Updike’s eldest son, David, acknowledged that his father “decided at an early age that his writing had to take precedence over his relations with real people.” Affection and guilt did fuel Updike’s fiction, giving it—in the case of his flatly autobiographical Maples stories and in the semiautobiographical Rabbit and Bech novels—richness and depth.
Jun 24, 2020 · Analysis of Anne Tyler’s Stories. From the beginning of his career as a writer, John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) demonstrated his strengths as a brilliant stylist and a master of mood and tone whose linguistic facility has sometimes overshadowed the dimensions of his vision of existence in the twentieth century.
Apr 5, 2014 · He captured the entirety of America from 1960 to 1990, which is an extraordinary achievement to do in four novels and a short story. He did it by creating an everyman [Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom ...
May 8, 2014 · The children recognized, with varying degrees of acceptance, that their father had “decided at an early age that his writing had to take precedence over his relations with real people.” Begley retells a well-known story of David, Updike’s older son, when a boy, calling on his father at his writing studio in Ipswich with some friends.
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Apr 27, 2016 · While Updike devotes ample attention to the process of writing, employing some of his famous word play (“My word processor—a term that describes me as well” [HG 4]) and noting (to the delight of many computer-challenged readers) how technology has not replaced the need for the human brain to seek out the right word, his real point is that the worthiness of the product itself is what ...
