Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel

from copyedit52

For the reader who's read the four Rabbit books, "Rabbit Remembered," the novella in this book, is a special treat. It ties up a few loose ends and in oblique recollections from his wife and son conjures moments in Harry's life from new angles. Updike's ambient details and psychological asides ar...

from ValerieAndBooks

Licks of Love(2000)by John Updike consists of twelve short stories and a novella, "Rabbit Remembered". Most of these stories, including the novella, revisits characters in past writings of Updike. Possibly all of them -- I could not be certain because I haven't read all of his works yet. I got a ...

from pnorman4345

A few short stories and a novella about Rabbit's family after he has died. This last is powerful. Many of the stories have wonderful sketches of Pennsylvania.

from HotWolfie

Updike is not one of my favorite authors. For instance I didn't like his "Witches of Eastwick," but I did like "Rabbit Run." I thought these short stories, though, were pretty entertaining. They had real emotional voices to the characters. Most dealt with unrequited love or decaying relationships...

from alexrichman

I'm not sure I can think of a single short story in this collection that I enjoyed - lame twists and retreads of previous material abound. The epitaph that is Rabbit Remembered provides a few thrills, but not many.