Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second and third essays, Updike discusses the role played by psoriasis, a genetic skin ailment, and stuttering in his childhood...
...book opens in his hometown--Shillington, Pennsylvania--with Updike walking through the streets waiting for lost luggage and reminiscing. He introduces events and people from his childhood, cleverly returning to them throughout the work...
...essays are an interesting view of the formation of ideas and themes that reappear in all of Updike's fiction. Many critics consider his novels, short stories and poetry largely autobiographical, and the way in which he explains the process of composing suggests that perhaps all writing stems from childhood fascinations of the author. Updike presents the interplay between experience and writing almost as an empirical proof, giving example after example and following each...
John Updike couldn't always get the words out. Ever since childhood Pulitzer Prize-winning author has had a stuttering problem. And although the speech defect has not stopped him from making his thoughts known in the long run, it did as a child...
Updike smatters the book with events from his childhood in small town Pennsylvania, his years at Harvard and his life in New Ipswitch. The events center around six issues, arranged roughly chronologically, but analyzed from a mature perspective, revealing commentary...