Licks of Love. Short Stories and a Sequel, 'Rabbit Remembered'.

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 358, [1]. Pictorial wraps.

A collection of twelve short stories that revisit some of the author's previous locales and characters, including a novella-length coda to his Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom quartet of novels. Title derived from the story in which an American banjo virtuoso demonstrates his 'licks' to an enthralled Soviet audience at the height of the Cold War. Most pieces appeared previously in The New Yorker, while a couple were published in The Atlantic Monthly and Esquire, respectively.

"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