Book news: Rabbit author at rest
By Dave
January 27th, 2009 | Leave a comment
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize winning author who chronicled the postwar life and times of Rabbit Angstrom in a series of novels, has died. NPR reported Tuesday that Updike had lung cancer.
Updike was regarded by many as a great teller of the American 20th century story, in part through the eyes of his basketball-playing, philandering, angst-ridden central character, Rabbit, from a young man still living in high school glory to unemployed typesetter to car dealership heir to retiree with a bad ticker who couldn’t resist one last game of hoops.
One of Updike’s endearing qualities was allowing his characters to age.
Updike’s Witches of Eastwick from 1984 became a hit movie, and he recently published a sequel, The Widows of Eastwick.
For more, visit the NPR site.
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