Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2335097
ISBN: 9780394572222
First trade edition. Faint edge wear.
257 pp. "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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