Licks of Love

Title: Licks of Love
Author: John Updike
Fiction: 1693986
ISBN: 9780345442017
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 0
Section: Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech's Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harry's survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updike's fictional world go round--married love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.