Novelist John Updike dies at age 76 -- Newsday.com

[Michael Bailey]

Rob Jackson  wrote:
> Sad news. Had only just finished a reread of Rabbit, Run in the new Penguin
> paperback series which has the long Afterword to the four novels that Updike
> wrote in 1995. If nothing else, that set of novels (including 2001's Rabbit
> Remembered) places Updike at the very top of the American literary pantheon.
>

also his early work has a continuing luster.  Pigeon Feathers and
Centaur, for instance.

> Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) covers a lot of the same
> territory as Vineland, without the kooky cartoon overkill of Pynchon's
> novel.

but it is precisely that...
ah, never mind.

It's a sad loss.  RIP


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