Word: everyslob
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...within the neutral middle range of emotion and event. His heroes, particularly those of his short stories, tend to be young boys or young husbands whose problems are small, and whose perceptions, although perfect and sometimes intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish to ask: "Is this all there is?" It might also be asked of Updike...
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