One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling
creation — his own life. In six eloquent and compelling
chapters, the author of The Witches of Eastwick and the
wonderful Rabbit trilogy gives us an incitingly honest look
at the makings of an American writer — and of an American man.
Here is Updike on his childhood, on ailments both horrible
(psoriasis) and hilarious (his experiences at the hands of a
dentist), on his stuttering, on his feelings during the
Vietnam War, on his genealogy. and on that most elusive of
subjects, his innermost self. What emerges is a fascinating,
fully formed portrait — candid, often very, funny, and
always illuminating.
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