Kamalpreet Singh answers “I am not sure I will finish the book!...”

Judite Valverde asked this question about Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1):

I am not sure I will finish the book! Damn...so many good things to read and I am in a sort of pain reading this one... :/ Should I hope for better...pages?

Kamalpreet Singh The purpose of art, according to Updike, was 'to give the mundane it's beautiful due'. That is what is entire oeuvre is about. Some people find this a…moreThe purpose of art, according to Updike, was 'to give the mundane it's beautiful due'. That is what is entire oeuvre is about. Some people find this ability to pinpoint the most mundane of things brilliant, for others a larger landscape is more worthy of engaging. Updike is for the former. Like Alice Munro, or Flannery O' Connor. There's no grand scheme of things here, no great plot unravelling. Just the utter pointlessness and waste of everyday life. That is his art.(less)

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