John Updike (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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A prolific writer in all genres, John Updike is known chiefly as a novelist. His major works have been best-sellers and have won significant critical acclaim both from reviewers for highbrow publications and from academics. Among his most noted novels are The Centaur (1963), Couples (1968), and the four novels depicting the life of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom: Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981), and Rabbit at Rest (1990). He is also an accomplished and respected writer of short stories,...

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