p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- American novelist John Updike, author the Rabbit series Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest, and Rabbit Remembered, has died at the age of 76.

He was also a poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

The Guardian has David Lodge saying:

“John Updike was one of the great stars in the constellation of post-war American fiction, up there with Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth. Unlike them he came from a Wasp background, and his special contribution was in showing how suburban white middle-class Americans were affected by the sexual revolution, notably in Couples; but he also created convincing characters from completely different social and ethnic backgrounds, for instance the genially satirical portrait of the Jewish novelist Bech. Above all, Updike was extravagantly gifted as a prose stylist, coining new metaphors and similes with apparently effortless ease, making us see, on page after page, the everyday world as if for the first time.”

He died of lung cancer.

The Guardian – ‘He gave the impression that he had more writing to do’, January 28, 2009

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