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Licks of Love : Short Stories and a Sequel by John Updike (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375411135
ISBN-139780375411137
eBay Product ID (ePID)1739385
Product Key Features
Book TitleLicks of Love : Short Stories and a Sequel
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year2000
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Updike
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-034906
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"A PROVOCATIVE READ . . . Bringing the Rabbit novels' setting and actors credibly into the twenty-first century seems a warm gift from the author. That he renders their arrival with optimism makes the gift more dear." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "As in his last Rabbit novel, Mr. Updike writes with fluent access to Harry Angstrom's world, chronicling the developments in his hero's small Pennsylvania hometown with the casual ease of a longtime intimate. With compassion and bemused affection, he traces the many large and small ways in which Harry's actions continue to reverberate through the lives of his widow, Janice, and their son, Nelson, and the equally myriad ways in which their decisions are influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by their memories of him." The New York Times "['Rabbit Remembered' is a] comic tour-de-force. . . . 'My Father on the Verge of Disgrace' exhibit[s] the author's matchless gift for dissection of character or evocation of setting. His is a graceful realism that, despite the Updike detractors, uses metaphor not for show but elucidation." New York Newsday From the Trade Paperback edition., "A touching, elegiac collection of stories about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years . . . [Updike] works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming."-- Newsweek "With compassion and bemused affection, [Updike] traces the many large and small ways in which Harry's actions continue to reverberate through the lives of his widow, Janice, and their son, Nelson. . . . ['Rabbit Remembered'] not only reconnoiters old ground but in doing so also manages to transform it into something stirring and new."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times " 'Rabbit Remembered' is a thing of rich satisfaction. . . . Throughout the collection are passages of stylistic certainty and bittersweet intimacy."-- The Boston Sunday Globe From the Trade Paperback edition., "A touching, elegiac collection of stories about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years . . . [Updike] works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming."- Newsweek "With compassion and bemused affection, [Updike] traces the many large and small ways in which Harry's actions continue to reverberate through the lives of his widow, Janice, and their son, Nelson. . . . ['Rabbit Remembered'] not only reconnoiters old ground but in doing so also manages to transform it into something stirring and new."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times " 'Rabbit Remembered' is a thing of rich satisfaction. . . . Throughout the collection are passages of stylistic certainty and bittersweet intimacy."- The Boston Sunday Globe, "A PROVOCATIVE READ . . . Bringing the Rabbit novels' setting and actors credibly into the twenty-first century seems a warm gift from the author. That he renders their arrival with optimism makes the gift more dear." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "As in his last Rabbit novel, Mr. Updike writes with fluent access to Harry Angstrom's world, chronicling the developments in his hero's small Pennsylvania hometown with the casual ease of a longtime intimate. With compassion and bemused affection, he traces the many large and small ways in which Harry's actions continue to reverberate through the lives of his widow, Janice, and their son, Nelson, and the equally myriad ways in which their decisions are influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by their memories of him." The New York Times "['Rabbit Remembered' is a] comic tour-de-force. . . . 'My Father on the Verge of Disgrace' exhibit[s] the author's matchless gift for dissection of character or evocation of setting. His is a graceful realism that, despite the Updike detractors, uses metaphor not for show but elucidation." New York Newsday
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe dozen short stories in John Updike's new collection revisit many of the locales of his fiction: the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger, the lonely farm to which the hero moves as an adolescent, the exurban New England of adult camaraderie and sexual mischief, the New York City of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. Love, including an old woman's for her cats and a boy's for his embattled father, exerts its spell in all twelve; the title derives from a story in which an American banjo virtuoso demonstrates his licks to an enthralled Soviet audience in the heart of the Cold War, while being hounded by the epistolary aftermath of a one-night stand in Washington, D.C. To these tales Mr. Updike has added a novella-length sequel to his quartet of novels about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Several old strands come at last together, and the dead man's survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium. The place is, as before, the area of Brewer, Pennsylvania; the time, the last months of 1999.
LC Classification NumberPS3571.P4L53 2000
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