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Review title: A Mixed Bag
Product review: The conceit of Greek mythology in this novel sometimes subtracts from the plot. Here, Updike is trying to create a Joycean novel with a Bloomian Every Man at its center. Despite the sometimes artificial feel of the trick, it sometimes works. Updike is able to paint, in very subtle shades, many degrees of feeling between a father and a son. The Greek myth as the counterpoint to this primal relationship may add little to this great work, but it doesn't necessarily detract from it; one can always read the "mythology" a little more quickly than the other finely written sections on what it is to be human and to struggle.
