Picked-up pieces / John Updike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Updike, John.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--20th century.

American essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xx pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 519 pages, 1 unnumbered page, xxiii pages, 5 unnumbered pages : 21 cm

Edition:

[Second print.].

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House, Inc.], 1976.

Contents:

Views: The literary life; Four speeches; London life; Amor vincit omnia ad nauseam; Cemeteries; Letter from Anguilla; Four introductions; Golf

Reviews: The fork; Religious notes; Dostoevsky; Knut Hamsun; Joyce and Proust; Borges; Nabokov; English lives; French deaths; Europe; Africa; The avant garde; Young Americans; Older Americans;; Non-fiction

Appendix: One big interview.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"Published November 26, 1975. Second Printing, January 1976."

"The text of this book was set on the Linotype in Janson, a recutting made directly from type cast from matrices long thought to have been made by the Dutchman Anton Janson ..."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

ISBN:

03944988496

OCLC:

1049073959