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Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" - In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bechs Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry Rabbit Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harrys survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updikes fictional world go roundmarried love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.


Read E-Book Online Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"

Book Details

⚡️Book Title : Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"
⚡Book Author : John Updike
⚡Page : 384 pages
⚡Published November 27th 2001 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published November 7th 2000)

Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered"

In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bechs Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry Rabbit Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harrys survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updikes fictional world go roundmarried love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.