false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg 1117165 1 <P> What does it mean to love a character in a book? Many of us do. Many of us always have. These loves are not the subject of late-night phone conversations with friends or entries in our secret diaries. Yet, as Anne Roiphe reveals in her stunning new book, the characters we know only in fiction live forever in our hearts and our minds. We are what we read. <P> In <I>For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor,</I> Roiphe takes us on a glorious tour of the relationships she has had with the great male characters of American fiction: Holden Caulfield, Robert Jordan, Dick Diver, Rabbit, Nathan Zuckerman, Frank Bascombe, and Max and Mickey. In her literary love life Roiphe is a serial monogamist. When she is involved with one character, she is exclusively his until another comes along. She is an audience, an imaginary lover, and a critic, too -- but a critic only in the way a relative carps or chides at the escapades of a dear one. Though a woman, she identifies with her male heroes; as a woman, she feels love, awe, worry, and tenderness toward them at the same time. Never have the great male creations of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Salinger, Roth and Updike, Ford and Sendak come alive so vibrantly through the critical imagination of a fellow novelist. <P> What we discover on the printed page often carries over to our real-life encounters with the opposite sex, and so Roiphe weaves fragments of her own life story throughout the book. At different times in her life, men like Holden, Rabbit, Nathan, and Frank taught her much of what she knows about how men feel, how they experience love and loss, how they are like and yet unlike her. Piece by piece, Roiphe uncovers a portrait of the male soul, in all its rage and glory. <P> A personal odyssey as well as a celebration of the joys of reading, <I>For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor</I> is a winning blend of self-discovery, criticism, and autobiography that will inspire everyone in love with the written word. 1104189 2 11 2000 For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor: An American Read total:4|4:2|3:2| 4 14 10 0 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 08:52:15 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 08:52:15 -0800 2009 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 0 0 false Fri Oct 16 17:53:47 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 17:53:47 -0700 2009 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 0 0 false Sat Oct 10 17:47:18 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 17:47:18 -0700 2009 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 0 0 false Tue Aug 04 12:47:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 12:47:00 -0700 2009 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 3 0 false Sun Feb 22 16:03:53 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 16:03:53 -0800 2009 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 3 0 false Mon Jan 05 12:01:48 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 12:01:48 -0800 2009 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 0 0 false Sun Dec 21 11:48:31 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 11:48:31 -0800 2008 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 4 0 false Mon Feb 18 11:26:47 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 11:26:47 -0800 2008 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 0 0 false Thu Jan 03 18:51:04 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 18:51:11 -0800 2008 1117165 0743205057 9780743205054 4 0 3.50 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181141570m/1117165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117165.For_Rabbit_with_Love_and_Squalor_An_American_Read 4 0 false Wed Nov 14 18:57:53 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 18:57:53 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1117165