Item #8663 SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike. John Updike.
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike

SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS; Memoirs by John Updike

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Trade Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the half-title, 8vo, tan cloth with "John Updike" in silver on cover, archival mylar-protected dust jacket with photo of young Updike (unclipped) & another photo of him signing a book on the back panel, photographic endpapers of the Updike extended family, xii + 257 pages + [1] Notes. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark laid in. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #8663
ISBN: 039457222X

EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: SIGNED by the AUTHOR! De Bellis & Broomfield, A127(b)

John Updike (1932 – 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books.

"John Updike's memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and sense of self."--jacket. His sensitive memoir is full of insight, humor, pain, and self-awareness. It takes the brilliant author's life up to his 55th year.

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