The latest Updike contains a novella (a long one, almost 200 pages), plus a dozen superb short stories, most of which have been published in magazines. Licks of Love (Knopf, $25) has what Updike has indicated as his last statement on the topic of Angstrom, who Updike followers will remember as having died in the 1990 novel Rabbit at Rest.
The four Rabbit books, fascinating in almost every page, said all that needed to be spoken about Rabbit Angstrom and his neighbors. Apparently Updike wasn’t ready to turn loose, thus this long follow-up, which seems unnecessary. Without the wonderful character that was so much a center of the other novels, this new treatise seems more of a parlor trick than a story that cried out to be told.
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