{"product_id":"self-consciousness","title":"Self-Consciousness","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSelf-Consciousness\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Updike\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780394572222\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAlfred A. Knopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1989\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Updike's memoirs consist of six chapters in which he writes of his home town, his psoriasis, his stuttering, his discomfort during the Vietnam war, his Updike ancestors, and his religion and sense of self. These essays together give the inner shape of a life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. He 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 and beautifully eloquent, not to say, in a number of places, self-effacingly funny. He takes the reader beyond self-consciousness, into sheer wonder at the world and its fabric.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Self-Consciousness | John Updike | Hardcover | 9780394572222 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks F 1786310","offer_id":50777770852610,"sku":"1786310","price":23.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91b2W98bXeL.jpg?v=1792167527","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/self-consciousness","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}