false 46917 16 "A triumph."<br><br>NEWSDAY<br><br>The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i> 864749 1971 Rabbit Redux total:1937|5:434|4:725|3:584|2:149|1:45| 1937 7165 2640 153 2 29 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 19:40:08 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:55:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 8 false false Sat Nov 29 10:29:42 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 13:10:00 -0800 2008
xxx]]> 2 3 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Apr 09 10:36:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 18 17:44:04 -0800 2009 Rabbit's A Reactionary Racist. It's been edited a little bit from it's original context.

What is the novel about? Well it’s about Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom: a man in his early thirties, with a wife, a son and a ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Jul 14 21:57:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 22:42:17 -0700 2009 Rabbit Redux begins in 1968, we learn that our man-child anti-hero has grown up into... one of those crew-cut wing-tipped lawn-mowing wife-slapping N-bomb-dropping don't-sass-me-punk-I-did-my-time-in-that-Korean-thing weasels that populate every single white suburban boy's 1960s coming of age sto...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 22:25:33 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 18:03:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 18:25:51 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 09:01:48 -0700 2009
One of the main characters is Skeeter who is a black Vietnam vet who has moved in with Rab...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 12:57:11 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 12:59:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 07:16:10 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 07:25:40 -0800 2009
Ten years after the first Rabbit novel,...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:57:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 18:34:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jul 01 08:35:08 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 09:18:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 06:34:59 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 06:35:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 20 14:06:07 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 14:09:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:17:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:18:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 05:51:41 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 20:05:29 -0700 2009 Rabbit Run and felt like Updike really understood me. Now that i'm 40, i figured it was time to read Updike's novel about Rabbit Angstom in his mid-30s.

I have a hard time writing anything about either of these two Updike books, the ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:18:50 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:18:50 -0700 2009 2
When I first read it, Rabbit was older than I was, and frankly it was difficult for me to relate to anything in his life (except maybe the disputes about Vietnam). I could still ap...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 11 08:49:21 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 14:01:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 21:01:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:57:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 09:46:02 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:50:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 10:37:46 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 10:43:23 -0700 2009
In the first book, Rabbit, Run you read as the main character Rabbit, deals with his faultering marriage and dead end life. So, he runs. In this book it's his wifes turn to run. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:01:27 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:09:32 -0800 2009 more...]]>