Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Redux by John Updike is a New Ed edition published by Penguin in 1973, featuring 347 pages in English. This sequel to Rabbit, Run continues the journey of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, who, a decade later, finds himself grappling with the complexities of middle age amidst the societal upheaval of 1969. As a once-promising athlete, Rabbit now navigates a world filled with turmoil, marked by technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence, while confronting the abandonment of his family and the invasion of his home by unexpected guests.
Readers will encounter Rabbit’s struggle for identity and belonging as he faces the remnants of his past and the challenges of his present. The narrative delves into themes of middle-class existence and the quest for meaning in a rapidly changing America. Updike’s portrayal of Rabbit’s internal conflicts and external circumstances offers a nuanced exploration of the human condition, making this edition a significant continuation of the character’s story.
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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.
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