Caretaker/Pallbearer
James Wolcott: Updike should stay at home, 1 January 2009
The Widows of Eastwick
by John Updike.
Hamish Hamilton, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2008,978 0 241 14427 5 Show More
by John Updike.
Hamish Hamilton, 308 pp., £18.99, October 2008,
“... later, Wallace is no longer with us, but two of the Great Male Narcissists he cited, Updike and Philip Roth, are still displaying their self-absorbency and depriving tender young empaths of valuable column inches. With an almost audible sigh, Updike concedes that the pups have a point. ‘He or she may feel, as the grey-haired scribes of the day continue to ... ”