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Self-Consciousness

Self-Consciousness

Updike, John

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ISBN10: 0812982967
ISBN13: 9780812982961
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Mar 13 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
John Updike's memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his foreword states, to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world. In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest, matchlessly precise, and self-effacingly humorous. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, and beyond self-importance, into sheer wonder at the miracle of existence.

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