Hugging the Shore
by John Updike
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Author: John UpdikeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-12-03
ISBN: 0140175199
Number of pages: 944
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Summary of Hugging the Shore
Since 1960 the novelist and poet has been reviewing books for the "New Yorker", and the reviews of the last eight years make up the bulk of this volume. Authors include Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Muriel Spark, Anne Tyler, Italo Calvino, Henry Green, Robert Pinget, L.E. Sissman, R.K. Narayan and Roland Barthes. He also writes of actresses Louise Brooks and Doris Day and golfers Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer.Literary Books
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