@HeerJeet Plot or range aren't Updike's strengths. The ex-graphic artist, Updike was his best at description, details, smaller observations.
@CarlRobertAnd I'm a partisan of the short story my self BUT there is something grand about the Rabbit books, however flawed.
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@HeerJeet I think the last two Rabbit books were influenced by Doctorow's Ragtime. (Though I have no proof of this, at hand.) -
@CarlRobertAnd Again, interesting thought. Maybe some of the staccato prose of those books as well had Doctorow inflection. - Show replies
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