At the age of 55 he has been rendered obsolescent by the crowding generations. He is old - real old, in the American way. As his surname was intended to signal, his heart was always troubled it is now fatally diseased.
Rabbit has served Updike well in the past as the quintessential American homme moyen sensuel in Run, Redux and Rich. Rabbit at Rest is one of the very few modern novels in English (Bellow's Herzog is another) that one can set beside the work of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Joyce and not feel the draft. Now, with Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom at death's door, he has hit on a subject and a dramatic situation that have made him write for dear life. have shown him as a writer content to toy with his tremendous gifts and squander them lightly on bright (and sometimes daffy) ideas. His three most recent novels - The Witches of Eastwick, Roger's Version and S. So often in the past, Updike's instinctively theological view of the world, his fall-of-each-sparrow style, his acute and squeamish sensuality, have seemed disproportionate to the job in hand. $21.95įROM NOW ON it is going to be hard to read John Updike without seeing all his earlier work as a long rehearsal for the writing of this book.
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