Volume 35, Number 8 · May 12, 1988
The Woman Who Rode Away
By Alison Lurie
Trust Me: Short Stories
by John Updike
Fawcett, 302 pp., $4.95 (paper)
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by John Updike
Knopf, 279 pp., $17.95
The American reading public prefers famous writers to suffer. The approved pattern is a meteoric rise like that of a Roman candle, exploding into brilliance at its apogee and then descending and becoming extinguished in the glare of newer fountains of colored fire. The descent ideally will be haunted by demons of a particularly nasty sort and end in a classical purgation of terror and fear, with biographers and critics scrambling round to pick up the holy cinders.
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