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| Title | : | Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Rabbit Angstrom #1-4) |
| Author | : | John Updike |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1520 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 1995 by Everyman's Library (first published October 17th 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Novels. Classics |
John Updike
Hardcover | Pages: 1520 pages Rating: 4.26 | 1564 Users | 150 Reviews
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When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels—the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life. Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature, Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs, the longuers, the loves and frenzies, the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story. This Rabbit Angstrom volume is composed of the following novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.
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| Original Title: | Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library) |
| ISBN: | 0679444599 (ISBN13: 9780679444596) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Rabbit Angstrom #1-4 |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 1564 Users | 150 ReviewsArticle Containing Books Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Rabbit Angstrom #1-4)
Absolutely worth the re-read thirty years after the original read.Language is a vivid second time around, and what was new then is history now. Misogyny even creepier now, no female imperfection misses the gimlet eye. Occasioned a re-read of his bio and a driving trip through Updike-land to see his house, school, graveyard and the dreaded farm - all still there and a lot of familiar secondary character names on tombstones - no RIP there.Probably four of the very best modern novels i have ever read.
Having read these 4 novels one after another, I couldn't have even considered picking up another novel until I had finished. I don't believe it matters whether you like or dislike Rabbit; the writing is what it is all about.Personally I liked Rabbit and all his failings. Updike is possibly the most honest author I have ever come across - especially when dealing with the male experience. Rabbit thinks as many men think, whether poor, rust belt American or not. Male readers who claim they haven't
Although it took me five months to complete, I've enjoyed every minute of it. Following the life of Rabbit Angstrom has become one of my favorite literary experiences. The themes of sex, ego, race, religion, family, and drugs influence the character through every part of this four-book series. Updike's writing is best displayed in these works; his descriptions of suburban life in Pennsylvania are easy to picture and relate to, especially as someone who grew up in the area as I did. Yet there are
There are books that have a reputation, that many people seem to enjoy, but with which you can find no connection at all. When I finished reading these Rabbit books I wondered why I had persisted. Looking at it as a whole I have the impression that the author was writing magical realism from a strictly realistic perspective - he appears to be making broad statements about the experience of for example race, or adulthood, as felt by a certain slice of the US population specifically a white, male
Before embarking on the journey through Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom's life, I read a lot of the reviews on the first novel, "Rabbit, Run," and many readers expressed a strong dislike for the main character.To all of those who disliked or even hated Harry: You don't know good literature when you read it!Sure, Harry is no hero, but he's not an anti-hero, either. You don't like him throughout the series, but you can't hate him, either. He's just a normal man who makes mistakes, with minimal
Selfish, immature, cruel, unlikable men. An all-American nightmare of badly designed Toyotas, encircling women and encroaching suburbia. Updike's novels never lets you down--he always writes something you can hate. In flowing, well-tuned phrases that wash over the nasty pettiness of the lives he writes, always with a well-educated Easterner's glow, or is it glower.
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