John Updike (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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A prolific and versatile writer, John Updike is an accomplished novelist, perhaps best known for his “Rabbit” tetralogy, but he is also the author of The Centaur (1963), which fuses myth and realism in middle-class America; Couples (1968), which examines the social and sexual mores of a modern American town; The Coup (1978), in which the narrator is writing, in memoirs, the history of an imaginary African nation; and Roger’s Version (1986) and S (1988), which are creative reworkings of the situation of

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