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Recent fiction by John Updike Villages (2004)
"Page for page, voluptuously pleasurable to read No one else I know of, simply no one, writes this well."
—John Banville, The New York Review of Books
Seek My Face (2002)
"[A] brief novel of deep feeling . . . Lovely and wise . . . What you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went to the trouble of learning to read." —Richard Lacayo, Time
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" (2000)
"These stories share a theme of retrospect and a bittersweet tone of forgiveness . . . Updike, who has found in Rabbit an indispensable, if unlikely, vehicle for his truest insights into the mysteries of manhood, the promise of American life, and the operations of divine grace, could no more pass up the opportunity for a further Rabbit report than Rabbit himself could forgo a bowl of
macadamia nuts."
—A. O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review
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Fülszöveg
Recent fiction by John Updike Villages (2004)
"Page for page, voluptuously pleasurable to read No one else I know of, simply no one, writes this well."
—John Banville, The New York Review of Books
Seek My Face (2002)
"[A] brief novel of deep feeling . . . Lovely and wise . . . What you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went to the trouble of learning to read." —Richard Lacayo, Time
Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" (2000)
"These stories share a theme of retrospect and a bittersweet tone of forgiveness . . . Updike, who has found in Rabbit an indispensable, if unlikely, vehicle for his truest insights into the mysteries of manhood, the promise of American life, and the operations of divine grace, could no more pass up the opportunity for a further Rabbit report than Rabbit himself could forgo a bowl of
macadamia nuts."
—A. O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review
Gertrude and Claudius (2000)
"A living, powerfully physical work . . . Updike is a superbly skillful writer." —Brooke Allen, The Wall Street Journal
Bech at Bay (1998)
"Witty, acute, and surprisingly affecting . . . Updike at his most interesting and engaging . . . Like the other books about Henry Bech, this is modest in size but generous with its rewards."
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
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