It’s one of the achievements of Mr. Begley’s book, however, that it so acutely demonstrates how it all, in fact, didn’t come so easily. We witness Updike’s will in the face of repeated early rejections, rebuffs that would have squelched the drive of a less determined artist.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
The talented Mr. Updike …
… ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career - NYTimes.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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In my (admittedly totally subjective) estimation Updike by this point was consciously, carefully including signs and signage in the Rabbit saga, and was probably already, by the time he finished the first book in the series, planning for Angstrom to be joining his father at the printing plant in the second, where their appearances begin to take on something of a different character.
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