Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" - Softcover

"A touching, elegiac collection of stories about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years . . . [Updike] works so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming."--Newsweek

"With compassion and bemused affection, [Updike] traces the many large and small ways in which Harry's actions continue to reverberate through the lives of his widow, Janice, and their son, Nelson. . . . ['Rabbit Remembered'] not only reconnoiters old ground but in doing so also manages to transform it into something stirring and new."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

" 'Rabbit Remembered' is a thing of rich satisfaction. . . . Throughout the collection are passages of stylistic certainty and bittersweet intimacy."--The Boston Sunday Globe

Twelve short stories revisit the locales of the author's previous works of fiction and focus on a theme of love, an anthology that is complemented by a novella-length sequel, "Rabbit Remembered," to his Harry Angstrom series. Reprint.