• Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

    Florence King: Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
    Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.168, Macmillan