Rabbit Redux
Ratings11
Average rating3.3
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Ratings11
Average rating3.3
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.
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You know those “This is how men write!” jokes we make about how sexist and objectifying the narration is by some male writers?
That's what this book is like.
Rating: 2 stars. Was I supposed to be blown away by this book, since it is considered one of the best of all time? Because... no thank you.
Series
5 primary booksRabbit Angstrom is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1960 with contributions by John Updike.
