He taitamariki rawa kia mate. E 77 noa iho ngā tau o John Updike, ā, e whakapaetia ana e te tokomaha, kei te tuhi tonu ia i ngā tuhipoka maha i a ia e whakamomori ana i te tiaki hōhipera i Massachusetts i te 27 o Hānuere.
He mea whakamiharo āna mahi mō tōna oranga katoa, ehara i te mea ko te maha anake engari ko ngā momo tuhinga anō hoki: ngā pukapuka pakiwaitara, ngā pakiwaitara poto, ngā whiti, ngā tuhinga roa, me ngā arotake. Mō ngā kaupapa, he whānui anō hoki āna mahi, mai i te tuhituhi me te toi ki ngā kaupapa tino pai pērā i te korowha me te pēihipora.
I te mea ko ia te kaituhi rongonui o Amerika mō te hunga waenga, i hoatu e ia "te tae ataahua ki te hunga noa," e ai ki tāna ake kōrero. E whakapono ana ētahi kairīti kāore i te kaha te taumaha o āna rerenga kōrero—he mea ataahua ngā kupu waiata—ki te kawe whakaaro, engari e whakaaro ana ētahi he whakaata pai tana tuhituhi i te ao.
He uaua ki ngā kairīti te tohu i tētahi mahi toi kotahi, engari ko te nuinga e whakahua ana i te Rabbit Tetrology (mai i te tau 1960-90)— Rabbit, Run ; Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit is Rich ; Rabbit at Rest —e kōrero ana mō te oranga o te pakiwaitara a Harry Angstrong.
Ko ētahi atu o ngā tino pukapuka ko Couples , The Coup , The Witches of Eastwick , ā, nō nā tata nei, ko The Witches of Eastwick . Engari kāore taua rārangi poto e kapi ana i te tinana o āna mahi. Ko tāku tohutohu—tikina he panui mate i roto i tētahi nūpepa nui, i tētahi maheni pūrongo ā-motu rānei, ka kapihia hōhonutia āna mahi.
Ngā Whakaaro mō ngā Karapu Pukapuka
- He mea ngahau ki te pānui Witches… katahi Ngā Pouaru o Eastwick. Tērā pea ka whakamātau koe i te Tetrology Rāpetime, ahakoa ehara i te mea tino pai ki ahau.
- Hei whakangahau, pānuihia te pakiwaitara rongonui a Updike "A & P" i roto i tā mātou Akoranga Lit kore utu 4He pūrākau kanapa, he rorirori hoki, he kawa hoki, he kōrero mō te pakeketanga i ngā tau 1950. Tirohia hoki te Aratohu Ako LitCourse mō te pūrākau.