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RABBIT RUN
“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”
–Kansas City Star
“Updike’s punch is powerful.”
–Newsweek
RABBIT REDUX
“A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . A brilliant portrait of middle America.”
–Life
“A truly fine, dazzling, excellent novel in all it’s breadth and depth.”
–Miami Herald
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The story slowly unfolds and reveals more and more of Harry Angstrom's (rabbit)ambivalent character living and coping with ordinary american middleclass surroundings. Even though the first rabbit novel (rabbit run) takes place in the fifties it does not seem outdated. The political and social surroundings may have changed over the decades but rabbits core conflict of being torn between the resposibility for his family and the desire to break free are still as up-to-date as they were back then. Harry Angstrom seems like one of us with his settling feeling of mediocrity. With barely 30 he is at the treshold of reorienting his life: his cherished highschool-memories of once having been a basketball star slowly fading and giving way to see the whole extent of having a family. But rabbit does differ from most of us - he is not held back by any qaulms and does the unthinkable: leaving his 7 month pregnant wife and their 3 year old son. Instead he is going on a rampage of a reckless egotrip, not showing up for work, hiding from his wife and his family and beginning an affair with another woman.
The second novel of this compilation (rabbit redux) takes place a good ten years later. Its the late 60s/ early 70s. Rabbit has overcome his desire to be free and unencumbered but has to face his families development. Rabbits son has become an estranged teenager not sharing any of his father's interest, his wife infactuated by the spirit of the 70's is having a passionate affair with a coworker. When she leaves rabbit for her lover rabbit returns to be the unrooted spirit we know already from the first novel, throwing his responsibilities overboard and providing shelter to a young run-away girl highly drawn to drugs and a mentally unstable young black enganged in radical political movements.
Also in his his second rabbit novel Updike doesn't fail to provide his reader with some dramatic twists. Rabbit is just a magnet to circumstantial amd emotional chaos even though in the end he always eludes unharmed.
These are classic American novels, capturing the mood and sentiment in the way only the best fiction can: so that it is all "made up" by the author, but feels realer than reality. These novels are models of realist fiction, my favorite kind.
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