Malfunctioning Sex Robot
Patricia Lockwood: Updike Redux, 10 October 2019
Novels, 1959-65: ‘The Poorhouse Fair’; ‘Rabbit, Run’; ‘The Centaur’; ‘Of the Farm’
by John Updike.
Library of America, 850 pp., £36, November 2018,978 1 59853 581 5 Show More
by John Updike.
Library of America, 850 pp., £36, November 2018,
“... People write well about him,’ and I saw the red line of her estimation plunge like the Dow Jones. ‘Didn’t he write that thing,’ someone else said, ‘about how women don’t know how to piss, because their insides are too complicated?’ (Yes, in multiple books. It is at best puzzling, and at worst an indictment of both Pennsylvania public ... ”