It was in 1968, with his fifth novel, "Couples", that Mr Updike became suddenly famous.

令厄普代克瞬时成名的是他1968年发表的第五部小说《夫妻们》。

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Mr. Updike said he admired “that open-ended Zen quality they have, the way they don’t snap shut.”

厄普代克说，他很欣赏“它们开放式结局的禅宗意味，它们没有戛然而止的结尾。”

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The stories were by such authors as John Updike, Roald Dahl, Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, and Raymond Carver.

作者有约翰.厄普代克，罗尔德·达尔，契科夫，阿加莎和雷蒙德·卡佛。

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One of Updike's most famous series is about a man named Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.

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Over his long career, Updike wrote over fifty books including stories,poetry and essays.

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Even Rabbit Angstrom, John Updike's American Everyman, ended up in a Florida condo.

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The first submission Marc Smirnoff received for the Oxford American was a poem from John Updike about a bowel movement.

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" John Updike told a fuller story about characters from "Hamlet" (and other fictional sources) in his superb novel, "Gertrude and Claudius.

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