👉 "Unpolicied" is a 1984 novel by American author John Updike. It was published in 1965 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1967. The story follows the lives of two men, one an old man who has lived alone in an old house on an isolated island, and the other a young woman who moves there with her family to escape poverty. The novel explores themes of isolation, loneliness, and the search