![]() ![]() But obviously, he said, “there was no real baby involved only a few sentences and adjectives on some pieces of paper”.įor the first ten or 15 years of George Saunders’ writing career, spanning the story collections Civilwarland in Bad Decline (1996), Pastoralia (2000), and In Persuasion Nation (2006), he dealt with death in a way that suggested he – like Updike before him, but with even less pause for thought – considered the piled-up corpses in his work to be nothing more than sentences and adjectives on pieces of paper. ![]() “Well,” he told his wife, Mary, “I’ve just killed the baby.” At the time John and Mary’s third child was three months old, and Updike later admitted he had found writing the scene, in which Rabbit and Janice Angstrom’s daughter drowns in a bathtub, “unsettling”. In a Vermont farmhouse, at the end of a hot August day in 1960, John Updike came down from the room where he was working on his second novel, Rabbit, Run. ![]()
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