Detweiler, Robert <br/><br/>
John Updike / 
by Robert Detweiler. 
 - First paperback edition. 
 - 200 pages :  portrait ;  21 cm 
 - Twayne's United States authors series ;  TUSAS 481 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>John Updike: out of the ordinary -- The same door: unexpected gifts -- The poorhouse fair: the godless city of God -- Rabbit, run: the quest for a vanished grail -- Pigeon feathers: the design of design -- The centaur: guilt through redemption -- Of the farm: the failed poet and the urban Earth mother -- The music school: strange chords and strained cords -- Couples: Tristan and Don Juan in Tarbox -- Bech: a book: the Protestant as Jew -- Rabbit redux: the space beyond myth -- More fiction of the seventies: the exertions of Eros -- Problems, and, Too far to go: love above the void -- Rabbit is rich, and, Bech is back: sequels and success. 
<br/><br/> Examines the texture and structure of Updike's writing, with special attention to the metaphoric language, above all the image patterns, that mark his style. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>080577422X 9780805774221 0805774297 9780805774290 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>83018472  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>000002918813  AU 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Literary criticism
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3571.P4  / Z64 1984