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John Updike's novel S. has two or three brief business letters in likewise untranslated French.
Praise is tempered with complaints that the book is "entertainment, not literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker ) and that the ending is artificial and "stage-managed" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times ). (Read an excerpt from the book here, and read Jacob Weisberg's review in Slate .)
A modest rebound for John Updike's widely panned Toward the End of Time.
John Updike is at bottom a religious novelist, but when you try to identify what exactly his bottom-most religious beliefs may be, the whole murky lot of them playfully slither away--which gives his writing a touch of theological suspense.
And so Updike, in his fervor, goes on a search for God (to thus label the object of his desires) directly, by means of an intimate, unblinking examination of the world in front of his own nose.