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Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; with an Introduction by the Author by John Updike
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Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich;…

by John Updike

Series: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom novels (omnibus 1-4)

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The last time I saw John Updike, he read from and then signed copies of the tetralogy at First United Methodist Church (now the Daniels Recital Hall) at 811 5th Ave., Seattle, WA. The date: October 26, 1995. ( )
  jensenmk82 | Oct 25, 2009 |
This is a great series by Updike. It captures the essence of a man who is just doing the best he can to survive and live. He has little insight but struggles on anyway. It is very true to life. ( )
  cajunbear | Nov 23, 2008 |
I read these books individually in the order that they were written and found them all satisfying. Updike possessed a unique point of view and narrative voice, turning mundane things like sitting around the country club an exercise of minute observations, and making it interesting. His characters have wrinkles and flaws, the same kind you see in people you know. He's a national treasure. ( )
  fallsguy | Mar 12, 2008 |
a book of serials.
updike can write really well at times. only characters i wanted to follow after one book.
( 'redux' is the best. )
more of a commentary of the author's views of the changing times than anything else. still, though, decent but not enough to make me really care what happens to rabbit. ( )
  vyode | May 30, 2007 |
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The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow. ("Introduction")
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345464567, Paperback)

The first and second novels in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume.

RABBIT, RUN

“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and out own.”
The Washington Post

“Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings.”
The Village Voice


RABBIT REDUX

“ ‘Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling–a great and beautiful thing . . .’ these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike’s Rabbit Redux.”
–The New York Times Book Review


“Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece.”
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