'Licks of Love', part of the Rabbit Angstrom series by John Updike, is a collection of short stories and a novella that continues the story of the Rabbit Angstrom character. The novella, Rabbit Remembered, revisits the Angstrom family in 1999, focusing on Janice's encounter with Annabelle, who claims to be Harry's daughter from an affair forty years ago. The story delves into family dynamics, secrets, and the impact of past decisions on the present. Readers appreciate Updike's ability to weave together complex characters and storylines seamlessly, capturing the essence of small-town life in the USA from past decades.
From The Publisher:
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.
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