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

by John Updike

Short stories and a Rabbit Angstrom coda

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Short stories and a Rabbit Angstrom coda

A dozen stories revisit settings associated with Updike’s earlier fiction, from small-town Pennsylvania and New England suburbs to Manhattan’s artistic world. The collection then shifts to a novella-length continuation of the Rabbit Angstrom sequence: during the holidays of 1999, Harry’s survivors reckon with his memory while making lives of their own. Across these pieces, love appears in several forms, including marriage, family ties, erotic desire, and attachment to everyday domestic life. The book’s combination of standalone stories and a substantial sequel gives it two distinct points of entry into Updike’s fictional world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in short-story collections by a single author
  • Those familiar with the Rabbit Angstrom novels and curious about their continuation
  • Readers drawn to fiction about family, romantic relationships, and everyday American life

Themes

Love and desireFamily and memoryDomestic lifeAmerican places and communities

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Book overview

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 Bech's 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, Harry's survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updike's fictional world go round--married love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.
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