Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
“No living American novelist can match Updike in the range and responsiveness of his reading. . . . [Literature is] a house with many mansions, and inHugging the ShoreUpdike gives a splendid, striding tour.”—James Wolcott,Harper’s “These reviews are models of craft—and something more. . . .Hugging the Shorebristles with erudition, energy, and (quietly asserted) high seriousness; it is also one of the year’s most entertaining books.”—Bruce Allen,TheChristian Science Monitor “[Updike’s is] a body of literary criticism unmatched in range, discrimination and eloquence by any American novelist since Henry James.”—The Boston Globe