To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs--book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a "few paragraphs" on baseball or beauty or Borges--and saw each as "an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom."
Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
โ Scribed by Updike, John
- Book ID
- 109301753
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 778 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780679645856
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To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs--book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a "few paragraphs" on baseball or beauty or Borges--and saw each as "an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom."
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