{"product_id":"due-considerations","title":"Due Considerations - Essays and Criticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century.\"\u003ci\u003e—The Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere Updike considers many books, some in introductions—to such classics as \u003ci\u003eWalden, The Portrait of a Lady, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mabinogion\u003c\/i\u003e—and many more in reviews, usually for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker.\u003c\/i\u003e Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wizard of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary American and English writers—Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan—receive attentive and appreciative reviews, as do Rohinton Mistry, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Günter Grass, and Orhan Pamuk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn factual waters, Mr. Updike ponders the sinking of the Lusitania and the “unsinkable career” of Coco Chanel, the adventures of Lord Byron and Iris Murdoch, the sexual revolution and the advent of female Biblical scholars, and biographies of Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Marcel Proust, and Søren Kierkegaard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Due Considerations\u003c\/i\u003e is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports with a witty, sensitive, and articulate guide aboard—a voyage not to be missed.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50963985826080,"sku":"9780345499004","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780345499004.jpg?v=1764010782","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/due-considerations","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}