Is anyone familar with the the writer John Updike's work?

[howievance]

Looking for someones opinion of Mr. Updike's work "A&P

[dotjhawkes]

I havn'r actually read anything of his, though i have seen the Witches of Eastwick, which is a bit fancyful but a fascinating story

[jno]

haven't read any of his books for years - I didn't much like them, but they're about American life, often suburban life, and they're often highly thought of in the USA. I think The Witches of Eastwick was a bit more fantastical than most of his work. See wikipedia article about him.

[delilahcat]

Not madly keen on his 'Rabbit' books, but I enjoyed 'Couples', which is a thoughtful, quite dreamy book about the relationships between a number of couples in a small town in New England.

[Ray The Grey]

I quite enjoyed the Rabbit books, which give an accurate protrayal of US, middle class life from the 1950's to the 1980's. They seem a little tame nowadays and not the usual hard hitting storylines we expect now - a far more everyday view of the lifestyle, which was a differet approach at the time. I read the second one then the rest, so I would recommend having a go at the first one at least.