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Toward the End of Time by John Updike

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Name: John Updike
Birth Date: March 18, 1932
Place of Birth: Shillington, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, poet

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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19205 words, approx. 64 pages
[This entry was updated by Donald J. Greiner (University of South Carolina) from his entry in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 250-276.] A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
19166 words, approx. 63.9 pages
A reader would be hard pressed to name a contemporary author other than John Updike whose work is more in tune with the way most Americans live. Unconcerned with apocalypse in his fiction, undeterred by the universal absurdity that threatens to negate th...
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Biography of John (Hoyer) Updike
14259 words, approx. 47.5 pages
While his stature as a short-story writer may be perpetually overshadowed by the novelistic achievements of the Rabbit tetralogy--Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990)--John Updike has exhibited a susta...
 


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Toward the End of Time Information
690 words, approx. 2 pages
A novel by John Updike, published in 1997. It is the author's eighteenth novel and reflects the maturity of an author late in his...


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The Economist (US)
Toward the End of Time.
11/15/1997: 1,097 words, approx. 4 pages
AMERICA'S old war-horses are nothing if not garrulous. In this batch there are 320,000 words (many of them extremely long) from Thomas Pynchon, about 180,000 (some of them extremely rude) from Edmund White, and almost as many from Erica Jong and John Updike. At...
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The Nation
Toward the End of Time. (book reviews)
11/03/1997: 1,533 words, approx. 5 pages
After putting Rabbit to rest, John Updike ranged far abroad in Brazil and drilled deep into history in Memories of the Ford Administration and In the Beauty of the Lilies. While these were adventurous novels, I think Updike missed his long-running index to the...
 


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