Due Considerations
By John Updike
This collection of John Updike’s non-fiction writings includes a delightful preface, ‘Everything Considered’, in which he tells of his lifelong love affair with words; essays on travel, and on faith; introductions to some of the classics; reviews of lesser known foreign writers and new books by English and American contemporaries; as well as non-fiction topics from the sinking of the Lusitania to Coco Chanel’s ‘unsinkable career’; tributes to legendary New Yorker figures, and much more.
A cruise through the cultural waters of the past decade with as delightful, witty, sensitive and articulate a guide as you could hope for, Due Considerations is a voyage not to be missed.
‘This marvellously smart collection of musings on cars, poker and sex, and essays on English and American literature let me get to know one of my favourite authors on his own account’
The Telegraph