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Author: John Updike
First Published: 1998
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1986-1999
Setting: Czechoslovakia, New York City, Los Angeles, and Sweden
Principal Characters: Henry Bech, Isaiah Thornbush, Edna, Morris Ohrbach, Rachel Teagarten, Orlando Cohen
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Jews or Jewish life, Criticism, Popular culture
Locales: New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Sweden, Czechoslovakia

A master stylist, poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic, John Updike has come to dominate the American literary scene since his first novel The Poorhouse Fair (1959). More than two dozen critical books have been written about his works, not to mention the many articles and essays published about him yearly. Specializing in sex, religion, and middle-class American mores, Updike has written nearly a book a year in an easy profligacy reminiscent of Joyce Carol Oates. His strong, painterly descriptive ability was developed in part from his artistic training at the Ruskin...

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