Hugging the Shore by Updike, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Persons and Places

Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans

The Pal One’s Neighbor’s Wife The Running Mate The Counsellor The Golf Course Proprietor The Child Bride The Mailman The Widow The Undertaker The Bankrupt Man

The Tarbox Police Venezuela for Visitors The Chaste Planet Invasion of the Book Envelopes Golf Dreams Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Masters New England

The First Kiss Out There Going Barefoot Common Land New England Churches

A Mild ‘Complaint’

Other People’s Books

Three Talks on American Masters

Hawthorne’s Creed Melville’s Withdrawal Whitman’s Egotheism

Letters

The Bear Who Hated Life Simple-Minded Jim Advancing Over Water Nothing Is Easy An Armful of Field Flowers Hem Battles the Pack; Wins, Loses The Doctor’s Son The Shining Note

Wilson and Nabokov

Edmund Wilson’s Fiction: A Personal Account An Earlier Day The Cuckoo and the Rooster An Introduction to Nabokov’s Lectures The Fancy-Forger Takes the Lectern Proud Happiness Vale, VN

Bellow, Vonnegut, Tyler, Le Guin, Cheever

Draping Radiance with a Worn Veil Toppling Towers Seen by a Whirling Soul All’s Well in Skyscraper National Park Family Ways Loosened Roots Imagining Things On Such a Beautiful Green Little Planet

Some British

Jake and Lolly Opt Out Indestructible Elena An Introduction to Three Novels by Henry Green Green Green Through the Mid-Life Crisis with James Boswell, Esq.

Spark, Murdoch, Trevor, Drabble

Topnotch Witcheries Worlds and Worlds Drabbling in the Mud Of Heresy and Loot Coming into Her Own

Some Irish

Small Cheer from the Old Sod Flann Again An Old-Fashioned Novel

Jarry, Queneau, CÉline, Pinget

Human Capacities Thirty-four Years Late, Twice The Strange Case of Dr. Destouches and M. Céline Robert Pinget

Northern Europeans

A Primal Modern Saddled with the World Scheherazade Brecht’s Dicta Discontent in Deutsch Disaffection in Deutsch

Calvino, Grass, BÖll

Metropolises of the Mind Card Tricks Readers and Writers Fish Story The Squeeze Is On

Eastern Europeans

Polish Metamorphoses Czarist Shadows, Soviet Lilacs Czech Angels

Lem and Pym, Stead and Jones

Lem and Pym Selda, Lilia, Ursa, Great Gram, and Other Ladies in Distress Eva and Eleanor and Everywoman

Some Nachtmusik, from All Over

No Dearth of Death Dark Smile, Devilish Saints Layers of Ambiguity Stalled Starters Frontiersmen

Barthes, Berlin, Cioran

Roland Barthes Texts and Men The Last of Barthes A Monk Manqué

Poets

The Heaven of an Old Home Alone but Not Aloof Owlish and Fishy Sissman’s Prose Sissman’s Poetry Three Poems on Being a Poet, by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Stand Fast I Must

Tales

Magic Mirrors Fiabe Italiane A Feast of Reason Happy on Nono Despite Odosha

The World Called Third

African Accents Mixed Reports from the Interior Journeyers Raman and Daisy and Olivia and the Nawab India Going On

The Far East

Spent Arrows and First Buddings From Fumie to Sony The Giant Who Isn’t There The Long and Reluctant Stasis of Wan-li

Art and Act

Gaiety in the Galleries Tote That Quill Wright on Writing Borges Warmed Over Pinter’s Unproduced Proust Printed Suzie Creamcheese Speaks Female Pilgrims

Long Views

A Cloud of Witnesses Who Wants to Know? To the Tram Halt Together

Appendix: On One’s Own Oeuvre Dedication Acknowledgments Other Books by This Author About the Author

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