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Work InformationRabbit Redux by John Updike (1971)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Double blech ( ) As much as I wish I was French, Iâve got to admit these anglophone writers really know what theyâre doing. Updike manages to pull off a Heart of Darkness set within a 60âs suburb, with all of the racially based tumult that is part and parcel of that kind of thing. Colonel Kurtz is now a black man on the run, convinced he is Jesus and liberator, lodged like an enigmatic tumour in Rabbitâs home. The blind vitality of a Lolita is exploited and pilfered by both white colonisers and dispossessed black men. The open sore of Vietnam and the sterile exploration of the Moon don the role of catalysts for religious fervour and naive optimism. All of these factors, as well as a âfucked out cuntâ (one of my favourite Millerismâs) of a marriage, just go to demonstrate the state of the cogs of the American machine of the 60âs. As the spectacle of a black man fucking a white young girl with the windows wide open shows, the artifice of those repugnant âwell-to-do white neighbourhoodsâ has been dashed. The eyes may be the window to the soul, but now one must wonder what these suburban windows now point to. No one can keep up appearances any longer, the catâs outta the bag. This book is great. P.S. donât read on the train, got a lot of concerted looks for reading a book laden so heavily with n bombs. Updike can be hard to read. You have to commit. But if you commit, you won't regret. The plot of this book, like Rabbit Run, simmers slowly and builds organically to a very satisfying conclusion, and along the way, you get to experience whatever decade Rabbit's experiencing. In this case, that's the Sixties, during the civil rights upheaval. I marveled at the tangle Rabbit gets himself into and delighted in his handling of it (Rabbit tends to just go with the flow of whatever happens in his life). This is a great book. I highly recommend it. This book was good I thought over all. Obviously not the best in the series and ends in a way that you want more. Thank God there are other books to follow. I'm hoping the last two blow my mind because looking at the reviews on her they do better and they both won Pulitzer Prizes. All I can say for now that this is my favorite series thus far. He doesn't have too many characters to follow and the stories flow very nicely. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Series"Rabbit" Series (2) Belongs to Publisher SeriesEurópa Zsebkönyvek (323) Gallimard, Folio (2372) Meulenhoff editie (274) rororo (4151) Is contained inHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry â??Rabbitâ? Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhowerâ??s becalmed America has become 1969â??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 No library descriptions found. |
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