Licks of Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Marriage, Brothers and sisters, Fathers, Death or dying, Illegitimacy
In an imaginary interview that he gave to his character Henry Bech when Memories of the Ford Administration appeared in 1992, John Updike confessed that “some time ago I reached the age when everything I did was, more or less, a sequel to something I had done earlier.” Certainly this is true of Licks of Love, a collection that consists of a series of remembrances of things past, new stories on familiar themes in equally familiar settings.
“We have one home, the first, and leave that one,” Updike wrote in his early poem “Shillington.” “The having and...
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