{"id":4065,"date":"2017-07-07T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2017-07-07T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:31:49","slug":"purewow-recommends-50-funny-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/07\/purewow-recommends-50-funny-books\/","title":{"rendered":"PureWow recommends 50 funny books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Updike lovers might be hard pressed to cite their favorite “funny” Updike book.<\/p>\n

Is it A Month of Sundays<\/em>, with its comedic premise of a clergyman sent to a curative retreat for wayward ministers because he was getting a little too intimate with his flock . . . and then can’t help himself from trying to seduce his overseer through journal entries he knows she’s reading? Or S.<\/em>, another book in Updike’s Scarlet Letter<\/em> trilogy in which he pokes fun of the notion of suburban housewives needing to “find” themselves in a commune, only to discover another form of male dominated servitude?<\/p>\n

Is it The Coup<\/em>, with its hilarious satire of a Third World dictator and American consumerism?<\/p>\n

Is it one of the sardonic, tongue-in-cheek books on Updike’s Jewish alter ego, Henry Bech (Bech: A Book<\/em>, Bech Is Back<\/em>, Bech at Bay<\/em>)?<\/p>\n

PureWow<\/strong>\u00a0went with The Witches of Eastwick<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In a list-story on “The 50 Funniest Books We’ve Ever Read,”<\/a> \u00a0they picked Updike’s tale of female vs. male power as their #6 funniest book: “The movie version is fabulous, but Updike’s original source material about three spurned women is even more satirical and wonderful.”<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that there are a number of funny Updike books to choose from\u2014enough for him to be considered not just one of America’s great writers, but one of America’s great comic writers as well.<\/p>\n

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