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“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [John Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and our own.”—The Washington Post
“The power of the novel comes from a sense, not absolutely unworthy of Thomas Hardy, that the universe hangs over our fates like a great sullen hopeless sky. There is real pain in the book, and a touch of awe.”—Norman Mailer, Esquire
“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
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The author does not despise his main character Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom but tries to depict impartially and understand him. Rabbit, a man who once was a first-rate basketball player, in the beginning of his mature life becomes an apprehensive son, indifferent father, inattentive husband, lustful but callous lover. He thinks only about himself, he is ready to run from any obstacle or trouble (his wife, his lover or any person who does not want to do what Harry desires), 'he doesn't care who he hurts or how much'. Gratifying his selfishness and feebleness in solving ethical problems, he leaves behind only disenchantment, pain and even death. His former lover fairly tells him: 'You're Mr.Death himself. You're not just nothing, you're worse than nothing. You're not a rat, you don't stink, you're not enough to stink.'
One of the main characters of the novel is a priest, there are a lot of church-goers (including Rabbit himself) on its pages, they speak about God but do not have faith. Their sanctimony corrupts people. Even such unbelievers as Ruth, a call girl and Rabbit's lover, and Lucy, priest's willful wife, look more sincere than their pious milieu (Lucy about Rabbit: 'If he's a Christian thank God I'm not one').
So, who is Rabbit? A monster? No, the author tells us, he is just an ordinary modern man devoided of moral responsibility.
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 Even though the first rabbit novel (rabbit run) takes place in the fifties it does not seem outdated.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 Angstroms 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.
John 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.
Even though Harry was quite depressing , I found this book very enjoyable because of Updike's detailed use of imagery and motifs. This is just the first of the Rabbit trilogy books by Updike, and this novel drives me to read the other Rabbit books just to see what happens to Harry next. This is a must read on my reading list, and I recommend this book to all high school students and adults.
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