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Read more: Lockwood, "Malfunctioning Sex Robot," London Review of Books Oates, "Rabbit at Rest," The New York Times. In 'Rabbit' Angstrom's decline, Updike writes the failing heartbeat of the long twentieth century. As a set of Great American Novels, the reflected picture of the nation is thus unkind but unkind does not necessarily imply untrue.
Taken as a whole, the 'Rabbit' quartet is a portrait of pleasure without happiness dissatisfaction without remorse patriotism without purpose self-righteousness without virtue nostalgia without love.
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By the end he is dead or ready to die, granting critics full license to call the book by that most beloved of critical adjectives, "elegiac." The subsequent RABBIT IS RICH won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, as did the following and final RABBIT AT REST, wherein a decrepit Harry Angstrom sets out to make his wife unhappy one last time by sleeping with his daughter-in-law for no particular reason.
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The series that made and maintained Updike's reputation: first, with RABBIT, RUN, introducing the splendors and miseries of the grown-up high-school athlete, his glories behind him and his suburban responsibilities upon him then the ten-years-after sequel, RABBIT REDUX, in which all the tumult and ferment of a decade arrives tangled and compressed into what even the most stony-hearted and unforgiving of critics must agree is, after all, a novel. John Updike died in January 2009."It's hard not to see the grinning American skull behind Rabbit's happiness." – Patricia Lockwood In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. a brilliant portrait of middle America." -LifeĪbout the Author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. It may even-will probably change your life."-Anatole Broyard "A superb performance, all grace and dazzle. Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit."- Time "An awesomely accomplished writer. 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. 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. In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. How he resolves-or further complicates-his problems makes a compelling read. Harry Angstrom-known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters-finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife. About the Book The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story.
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