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.
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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.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Some minor edge wear with an additional one inch tear on jacket back. Owner bookplate on front end page.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Blue cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. A collection of book reviews, taken mostly from Updikes contributions to the New Yorker, and other sundry essays a nd humorous pieces. Slight nick to lower edge of half-title and titlepage, else a fine copy in near fine dustjacket.
