Rabbit Remembered
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In this brilliant late-career collection, John Updike revisits many of the locales of his early fiction: the small-town Pennsylvania of Olinger Stories, the sandstone farmhouse of Of the Farm, the exurban New England of Couples and Marry Me, and Henry Bech’s Manhattan of artistic ambition and taunting glamour. To a dozen short stories spanning the American Century, the author has added a novella-length coda to his quartet of novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Several strands of the Rabbit saga come together here as, during the fall and winter holidays of 1999, Harry’s survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness up to the edge of a new millennium. Love makes Updike’s fictional world go round—married love, filial love, feathery licks of erotic love, and love for the domestic particulars of Middle American life.
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6 primary books#5 in Rabbit Angstrom
Rabbit Angstrom is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1960 with contributions by John Updike.
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Satisfactory epilogue to the series. It does struggle to justify its existence at times since Anabelle isn't a fascinating character. For the most part, Updike is really providing an update on what's happened in the area since Rabbit's death, e.g., what happened to Charlie Stavros and Springer Motors. Still, the ending is good, and I always enjoy how he interweaves cultural and political discussions of their time into the stories. In this one, it happens to be a heated Thanksgiving debate on the Clintons or American Beauty. Have to agree with Pru's thoughts on the latter btw.
Satisfactory epilogue to the series. It does struggle to justify its existence at times since Anabelle isn't a fascinating character. For the most part, Updike is really providing an update on what's happened in the area since Rabbit's death, e.g., what happened to Charlie Stavros and Springer Motors. Still, the ending is good, and I always enjoy how he interweaves cultural and political discussions of their time into the stories. In this one, it happens to be a heated Thanksgiving debate on the Clintons or American Beauty. Have to agree with Pru's thoughts on the latter btw.
