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Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy - "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit is Rich", "Rabbit at Rest" (Everyman's Library Classics) (Hardcover)

by John Updike (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 1530 pages
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library; Revised edition edition (21 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185715214X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857152142
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 243,181 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, athlete, is Mr Midd le America. Often erotic in description and coruscating with realistic details which recreate a world in each novel, the se books give a complete picture of their age. '

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5.0 out of 5 stars Updike- the Rabbit books, 3 Sep 2006
By Leyla Sanai "leyla" (glasgow) - See all my reviews
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Many good writers can tell an engrossing story, but only the best manage to reach inside your head and grasp perceptions that you yourself had never acknowledged but instantly recognise, shudder or smile at, and empathise with when you read. Suddenly you are there with the characters, experiencing everything they see, feel, hear, smell, taste and touch, every twinge, every furrowed brow and fleeting thought. John Updike is one of those masters and many of his descriptions stay in your head forever. I can't look at rhododendrons without remembering his description of them in Rabbit, Run - 'when the first blooms came, they were like the single big flower Oriental prostitutes wear on the side of their heads...but when the hemispheres of blossom appear in crowds, they remind him of...the hats worn by cheap girls to church on Easter'.
All th Rabbit books are beautifully written. Rabbit's indecisiveness, his angst and discontent, are painted with an incredibly masterly touch, as are his effects on those around him. Updike captures not only characters but the whole human predicament. His insights are second to none - with a few well chosen words he can nail a feeling, thought or action where other lesser authors would struggle and use ten times as many less suitable words.
My only slight disappointment about Updike is that many of his characters are so stereotypically 'male'. They are able to fall out of love when their wives fall into depressed alcoholism, their hair thins, they lose interest in sex, or they become overweight, able to walk out on partners and kids without seeing to miss them, or with only a flicker of self-indulgent angst. But Updike's ability to synthesise people of all sorts is evident from his descriptions of peripheral characters, in particular, females, so his cynicism about the male race is not due to shallowness but a perhaps realistic perception of the superficiality and/or flaws of some men and women. A writer, then, not of cosy tales and romantic dreams, but of life in all its grit and truth, god, bad, ugly and funny. The man is a genius.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Great American Novel, 27 Jan 2009
By W. McNamara (Sweden) - See all my reviews
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With the passing of the incomparable John Updike I suspect many potential readers will look to this collection of the Rabbit novels which, taken together, have been called The Great American Novel. Certainly with his peerless prose, keen eye for detail and nuance and delicate descriptive sense, there was no author better suited to laying down the chronicle of the middle-of-the-road Harry Angstrom. Some have questioned the dichotomy - the beautiful writing, the less-than beautiful people it describes - but therein lies its genius. Updike makes the mundane seem exceptional and worth reading about.

I also felt it important to redress the balance and get the rating closer to the 5 stars it undoubtedly deserves. John Updike was one of the greats of American literature and this was his masterpiece.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Unrelenting ugliness , 21 Feb 2008
By Aquinas "summa" (celestial heights, UK) - See all my reviews
I read this trilogy about 4 years ago and found Rabbit to be a bleak characther. This impression has not left me; if anything, the years have compounded my initial feeling about the books. This trilogy is a study of a life fenced in on itself, a life dead to beauty and sunk in the ugliness of self absorption.
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