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Assorted Prose,Used
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John Updikes first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirtythree, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writers youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and Talk of the Town reports, the fruits of Updikes boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux desprit are followed by Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu, an immortal account of Ted Williamss last atbat in Fenway Park; The Dogwood Tree, a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Timess estimation, the preeminent critic of his generation. Updike called this collection motley but not unshapely. Some would call it a classic of its kind.
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