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| Title | : | Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2) |
| Author | : | John Updike |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 440 pages |
| Published | : | August 27th 1996 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. American |
John Updike
Paperback | Pages: 440 pages Rating: 3.8 | 13605 Users | 718 Reviews
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In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.Be Specific About Books In Pursuance Of Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
| Original Title: | Rabbit Redux |
| ISBN: | 0449911934 (ISBN13: 9780449911938) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Rabbit Angstrom #2 |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1972) |
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Ratings: 3.8 From 13605 Users | 718 ReviewsCriticize Of Books Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
I think I'll start tonight when I get home from work.Started last night but didn't get very far in. We're about 11 years on from "Rabbit, Run". Harry and Janice have moved to a tacky suburban development and Janice might be fooling around. Harry seems as lost(although still kind of charming!) as ever. We'll see...- nice description of the print shop and Harry's "joy" in it.It's been slow going in more ways than one but things should pick up tonight as I have the evening off and the big JaniceI wrote this review a few years ago for a different site. I called it Rabbit's A Reactionary Racist. It's been edited a little bit from it's original context. What is the novel about? Well its about Harry Rabbit Angstrom: a man in his early thirties, with a wife, a son and a job on the verge of being made obsolete by technology. In the first novel, Rabbit ran away from his wife and young child. The novel dealt with the way he is pulled between his freedom and responsibility. In Rabbits second
Like the decade of the 60s, Rabbit Redux is a bit tricky. Wee complications arise in so liberal a landscape, especially if the everyman in the novel is absurdly conservative. Add then a haze proliferated by drugs (weed and alcohol and pills) in the mix, and what you have left over is Harry Rabbit Angstrom, older but none the wiser. This time around, ten years after the first Rabbit novel, Janice, Harrys sad, insipid wife runs away, leaving Rabbit with the kid. Add then too the elements that made
I should have read Rabbit Run first. I have procured that book and it will probably help me to appreciate Rabbit Redux more. My first by John Updike and he is a gifted writer. There are other books in this series. It's like a sort of bildungsroman divided up. A lot going on for Harry Angstrom at the same time. He's having to deal with a rebellious son, an estranged wife and two guests who love to shoot up. His job is going down the pan as well. He doesn't deal well with the 60's . Maybe Updike
DISCLAIMER: Rabbit, Run made me a John Updike fan-girl.If Rabbit, Run was Updike's anti-1950's-American-suburbia book, then Rabbit Redux is definitely his rage against the 60's. Set in 1969 around the time of the moon landing, we find Rabbit, a little over a decade older, and he's not running. You could say that karma has caught up to him. Rumour has it that Janice (who has sobered up and is working at one of her father's car dealerships) is giving Rabbit a little taste of his own medicine, and
My first Updike, and I exploded with pure pleasure. From the precise beauty of its descriptions. From its beguiling historical detail and allegorical meaning. From its nuanced understanding of men and women, particularly men, but also women, what they want, what they fear, what they fear to want. The structure of the book is elegantly simple. It opens with a wife walking out on her husband, and closes with the probability of them getting back together again. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is a man who
When we last saw Rabbit Angstrom, he was trying to run out on his wife at the funeral of their baby daughter, having just made, quite casually, a stunningly insensitive remark. He still has pretty much the same opinion of his wife's intellect and parenting skills, but it's ten years later, and Rabbit has joined his father in the printing business -- he's a lithographer -- earning a skilled, blue collar paycheck everyday, ending the day with a couple of cocktails with dad, and going home to be a
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