Summary
Rabbit at Rest, the final book in the series, is an absolute masterpiece, and will live for ever: in it, his own description of his literary goals -- to give the ordinary its beautiful due -- is most fully realised. When I wrote -- at his instigation -- the introduction to Rabbit at Rest for a new edition, I suggested that his great sympathy for and understanding of this vast group of golf-playing, adulterous and fundamentally religious and patriotic group was because, unlike most British writers, he had not sprung out of any class system, but from small-town America in its heyday, complete with his experience of the very democratic high-school system, and its fundamental optimistic sense of purpose.
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My Memories of the American Dostoevsky
I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone, because he was for me the greatest American writer of the second half of the 20th century. He was also a gracious, charming and witty man.
But above all he had a very rare quality in writing -- absolute integrity. He never jumped on bandwagons, ...See the full content of this document
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