Hugging the Shore
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Author(s)John Updike
PublisherPenguin Putnam~trade
ISBN / ASIN0140175199
ISBN-139780140175196
Sales Rank5,790,344
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.