Rabbit Redux

Rabbit Redux

Softcover
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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.

Book Information

Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
448
Price
21.00 €

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The second book of this cycle is set ca. 10 years after the first. Rabbit is still a difficult character to follow along on a journey. He is anxious and irrational and seems like he never really grew up... like his mother is stating... it's just too easy to influence Rabbit. But he also has these moments of utter clarity. The book uses a lot of very graphic language. The bigger picture though is what Updike is able to portrait of society at the time. You have the whole hippie movement, anti-war discussion, depression and racism. All of these things are easily incorporated in the story and I think that's where the author really shines.

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