Leave It to Updike to Pop Those Cherries
Written byPosted on October 31, 2005
Filed Under New Yorker, Updike, John
John Updike takes on the new Gabriel García Márquez novel. He decries the book’s narrator for not considering “the atavistic barbarism of buying girls in order to crack their hymens.” But more interestingly, he offers one of the oddest sentences ever seen in the New Yorker’s history: “The narrator’s asshole, we are told more than once, burns.”
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