{"product_id":"licks-of-love-short-stories-and-a-sequel-rabbit-remembered-9780345442017","title":"Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, \"Rabbit Remembered\"","description":"In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of \u003ci\u003eOlinger Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the sandstone farmhouse of \u003ci\u003eOf the Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, the exurban New England of \u003ci\u003eCouples\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMarry Me\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616624972050,"sku":"9780345442017","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d89f036f-1960-4a7b-82ef-de2fae50ac82.jpg?v=1732505709","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/licks-of-love-short-stories-and-a-sequel-rabbit-remembered-9780345442017","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}