John Updike is dead at 76. The man had quite a career--one wag wondered aloud whether he had any "unpublished thoughts".
I have read a great many books but am not well-read. Of Updike's entire corpus I have read two Rabbit books and a few New Yorker essays. Rabbit Angstrom was a great guy, and Updike always seemed to want to write for guys (with the exception presumably of "The Witches of Eastwick").
Any favorite Updike works from our there in cyberland?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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My understanding is that Rabbit Angstrom was a normal guy, uneasily aware his best days were behind him--kind of like a Springsteen song. The departure of a generation of American authors is worth noting.
"Rabbit Angstrom was a normal guy, uneasily aware his best days were behind him"
Great.
I've just become used to CW calling me a bear, now I gotta put up with being called a rabbit.
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