Updike At Rest

摘要

What everybody always comes back to is the style-that thing Updike did with words that other writers couldn't. They loved it, they quoted it, they studied it, they tried to rip it off. Sometimes they just got sick of its relentless perfection-the lyrical smoothness of the cadences, to the light cha-cha-cha of which Updike strung together words that in anybody else's hands wouldn't belong together.