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I fear that too many people will throw up their hands in exasperation at Updike's way of appealing for love by presenting his heroes as ever more odious or cantankerous, and too many other people will celebrate the book mostly for its secondary virtues--its astronomical wonders sailing through the futuristic sky, the human-chomping metal animals, a few political jokes.
Yet even in this most bizarre of Updike's novels, the guilty hero eventually finds himself sitting primly in a pew, listening to a lady minister declaim on Mary Magdalene and her womanly tears.
The third installment in the adventures of Henry Bech, an aging urban Jewish writer, is deemed "one of Updike's less ambitious works" but still "filled with pleasures" (Brian Morton, the Chicago Tribune ). Although said to be occasionally self-indulgent, this collection of interconnected stories is hailed as generally witty, and its sendups of the publishing business are reported to have hit home.
(Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). One admirer is Margaret Atwood, writing in the New York Times Book Review : Updike "manages an amazing range of emotions with his usual grace and dexterity."
But Updike, even in this book, is a great writer, the greatest we have, in his particular areas of strength--in the control of visual details, in his rhythmic intensity, in the colors and shapes that come pouring syncopatedly from his mischievous pen.