Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume is designed to add a wide-ranging survey of both Updike's work and the critical response to it. Divided into new essays on his Career, Life, and Influences and the Critical Contexts of his writing, reprints of previously published Critical Readings that address his major themes, characters, motifs, and concerns, and Resources for further study, it offers its readers insights into the breadth of his achievement from his earliest stories to the books he completed in the last months of his life. -- Publisher's website.

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