Assorted Prose

cloth, dust jacket, xii, 326 pages, Includes bibliographical references, Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing including, CONTENTS:The American man : what of him -- Anywhere is where you hang you hat -- What is a rhyme -- Drinking from a cup made cinchy -- On the sidewalk -- Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize -- Confessions of a wild bore -- The unread book route -- Alphonse Peintre -- Mr. Ex-resident -- Central Park -- No dodo -- Voices in the Biltmore -- Our own Baedeker -- Postal complaints -- Old and precious -- Spatial remarks -- Dinosaur egg -- Upright carpentry -- Crush vs. whip -- Metro gate -- Cancelled -- Morality play -- Obfuscating coverage -- Bryant Park -- John Marquand -- Two heroes -- Doomsday, Mass. -- Grandma Moses -- Spring rain -- Eisenhower's eloquence -- Mostly glass -- Three documents -- Free bee-hours -- Beer can -- Modern art -- The assassination -- T.S. Eliot -- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu-The dogwood tree : a boyhood -- The lucid eye in silver town -- My uncle's death -- Outing : a family anecdote -- Mea culpa : a travel note -- Eclipse -- Poetry from Downtroddendom -- Snow from a dead sky -- Franny and Zooey -- Credos and curios -- Beerbohm and others -- Rhyming Max -- No use talking -- Stuffed fox -- Honest horn -- Faith in search of understanding -- Tillich -- More love in the western world -- A foreword for young readers -- Creatures of the air -- Between a wedding and a funeral -- How How it is was -- Grandmaster Nabokov. Includes "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" a story of Ted Williams last game, which Updike attended. Williams hit a home run the last time at bat. One the best American sports stories, spine shows some fade as usual, light chipping to spine ends of d.j. in protective mylar.

Product Info

ISBN: 0812983777

ISBN-13: 9780812983777

Publisher: Knopf

Year: 1965

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

HarryEBagleyBooks

Address: P.O. Box 691 Fredericton, New Brunswick

Website: https://www.bagbooks.com

Country: Canada