Dec 26, 2009
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 [The entire page is 7627 words long] ©2000-2009
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