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A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated numbers in American books: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike - a candid, personal, and richly thorough take a look at his life and work. In this particular magisterial biography, Adam Begley provides an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story article writer, and critic who noticed himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps, and anonymities." Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks State, Pennsylvania; his get away to Harvard; his brief, active working life as the golden guy at the New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his considerable travel in foreign countries; and his retreat to some other Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he continued to be until his loss of life in '09 2009. Attracting from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was formed by his tumultuous personal life - including his enduring religious trust, his two relationships, and his firsthand connection with the "adulterous culture" he was credited with exposing in the best-selling Lovers. With a sharpened critical sensibility that lends depth and originality to his analysis, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works - from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy - and shows a surprising and deeply complex personality fraught with contradictions: a kind man with a vicious wit, a gregarious charmer who was ruthlessly competitive, a private person compelled to spill his secrets on the printed web page. Updike offers an admiring yet well balanced understand this nationwide treasure, a master whose writing is constantly on the resonate like no-one else's.
