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      Self-Consciousness

      by John Updike
      Published
      Mar 1989
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      John Updike's memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his Foreword states, "to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world." In the service of this metaphysical effort, he has been hair-raisingly honest, matchlessly precise, and self-effacingly humorous. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, and beyond self-importance, into sheer wonder at the miracle of existence.

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      Mar 1989 Knopf ISBN13 9780394572222 ISBN10 039457222X
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      Mar 2012 Random House ISBN13 9780679645801 ISBN10 0679645802
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