Mention Based On Books Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
| Title | : | Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2) |
| Author | : | John Updike |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 440 pages |
| Published | : | August 27th 1996 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. American |
John Updike
Paperback | Pages: 440 pages Rating: 3.8 | 13605 Users | 718 Reviews
Interpretation During Books Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
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.List Books Supposing Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
| Original Title: | Rabbit Redux |
| ISBN: | 0449911934 (ISBN13: 9780449911938) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Rabbit Angstrom #2 |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1972) |
Rating Based On Books Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
Ratings: 3.8 From 13605 Users | 718 ReviewsJudge Based On Books Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
DISCLAIMER: Rabbit, Run made me a John Updike fan-girl.If Rabbit, Run was Updike's anti-1950's-American-suburbia book, then Rabbit Redux is definitely his rage against the 60's. Set in 1969 around the time of the moon landing, we find Rabbit, a little over a decade older, and he's not running. You could say that karma has caught up to him. Rumour has it that Janice (who has sobered up and is working at one of her father's car dealerships) is giving Rabbit a little taste of his own medicine, andThese days I wouldnt bother to read Rabbit Redux at all but I remember then I even liked it in a way.The novel is too artificial and I believe John Updike simply wanted to catch some zeitgeist in just to be in the running Stavros takes it up quickly. She on anything?Who?This nympho of yours.On something?You know. Pills. Acid. She can't be on horse or you wouldn't have any furniture left.Jill? No, she's kicked that stuff.Don't you believe it. They never do. These flower babies dope is their milk.
Like the decade of the 60s, Rabbit Redux is a bit tricky. Wee complications arise in so liberal a landscape, especially if the everyman in the novel is absurdly conservative. Add then a haze proliferated by drugs (weed and alcohol and pills) in the mix, and what you have left over is Harry Rabbit Angstrom, older but none the wiser. This time around, ten years after the first Rabbit novel, Janice, Harrys sad, insipid wife runs away, leaving Rabbit with the kid. Add then too the elements that made
Well, this book started off more interesting than Rabbit, Run, but a good chunk of the middle dragged with talk of Vietnam, racial tensions, sexual conquests, along with a good fair share of uncomfortable scenes and degrading language. And then the end picked up enough to make me want to find out what happens in the third book...
As part of the PopSugar Challenge, I opted to listen to #2 in Updike's Rabbit series, which takes place in 1969 while Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is a supposedly responsible adult enjoying the fact that America is fighting the Viet Cong, and lamenting the fact that his wife Janice is leaving him for a guy she works with (and is opposed to the war). Harry is the Everyman in his opinions and lifestyle. It was like a walk down memory lane to hear his arguments about politics and race, and he is very
Yes, angst is right, page after page of it. And, to make matters worse, this book has not aged well at all. Most of "Redux" is preachy 1960's politics and the racism and xenophobia on display make this a tough read. Even if one is able to credit Updike with ranting against these issues, the experience of reading this book is so unpleasant I can't recommend it to anyone. And I found some scenes simply unbelievable (good grief, why not close the curtains of the house when the neighbors complain?).
John Updike's second novel about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, far from being a dated, passe update of the protagonist's life, is instead a sharp, resonant snapshot of its times. Published just two years after the time in which it was set, 1969, "Rabbit Redux" tackles and moves among the era's issues and defining moments: race, the space program, drugs, the Vietnam War, modern angst. It also shows Updike's ability to make a lot out of a little, plot-wise."Rabbit, Run" was very good, not great;
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