NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A LIVING, POWERFULLY PHYSICAL WORK . . .UPDIKE IS A SUPERBLY SKILLFUL WRITER.""-The Wall StreetJournal""WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS UPDIKE Our own king of eruditionhas gone back to the Hamlet story to imagine its inception: itsoffstage pre-story, when Claudius fell in love with his brother'squeen and that first dastardly deed in the garden was set inmotion. Wickedly replete with allusions, weaving the history ofideas with the lustier possibilities of adulterous coupling. . . .There is something delightful about following Updike down thispath, seeing his sentiments and sympathies unfold.""-The BostonGlobe""WITTY . . . FRESH AND MOVING . . . Engrossing enough on itsown terms to stand independently of Shakespeare's play."-"Time" "UPDIKE] HAS MANAGED TO CREATE IN GERTRUDE A GENUINELY COMPELLINGCHARACTER, a woman who is, by turns, vulnerable and outspoken,daring and naive. . . . One of his most sympathetic and persuasivefemale characters.""-The New York Times""BRILLIANT.""-NewRepublic"
【作者简介】
John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. Hegraduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year in Oxford,England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He isthe author of more than fifty books, including collections of shortstories, poems, essays, and criticism. His novels have won thePulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, the National BookCritics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award, and the HowellsMedal.
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