Rabbit Angstrom Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, & Rabbit at Rest (Hardcover)
| Author: John Updike |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN-10: 0679444599
ISBN-13: 9780679444596
Sku: 30117140
Publish Date: 11/1/1995
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(in Inches) 8.25H x 5L x 2.5T
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1568
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| Four novels trace the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties *Author: Updike, John *Series Title: Everymans Library (Cloth) *Subtitle: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, & Rabbit at Rest *Publication Date: 1995/11/01 *Binding Type: Hardbound *Language: English *Depth: 2.50 *Width: 5.00 *Height: 8.25 |
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Four works in one volumeFour novels trace the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom against the changing American society from the sixties to the eighties |
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John Updike's four great, classic Rabbit novels: RABBIT, RUN; RABBIT REDUX; RABBIT IS RICH; and RABBIT AT REST.
John Updike's four great, classic Rabbit novels: RABBIT, RUN; RABBIT REDUX; RABBIT IS RICH; and RABBIT AT REST.
Author Bio
John Updike
John Updike, the son of a schoolteacher father and a mother who wanted to be a writer, was raised in Reading, Pennsylvania--a town not unlike Brewer, where, many years later, he situated his famous character, Rabbit Angstrom. Updike graduated from Harvard, where he nourished "an un-Harvardian desire to be a cartoonist," as he put it in an interview, and where he was turned down "repeatedly" for Archibald MacLeish's writing class. He was also editor of Harvard's famous humor magazine, the Lampoon. After college, Updike worked for a few years on the staff of The New Yorker before he began publishing fiction. He is the author of over 50 books, including not only novels but collections of short stories, poems, and criticism--even children's books. His novels have been almost invariably critical and popular successes, and his tetralogy about Rabbit Angstrom (RABBIT, RUN; RABBIT REDUX; RABBIT IS RICH; RABBIT AT REST) has assured him a prominent place in American literary history. Updike is a disciplined writer who has said that he can't enjoy the rest of the day until he's written at least a thousand words. Considered one of the masters of contemporary fiction, he has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Updike is the father of four children and has been married twice. He died in 2009 from lung cancer.
Praise
Spectator
"Reading John Updike creates in me that surge of confidence in the literary imagination of my time that the Victorians felt--with far less justice--when they read Dickens. The recent appearance in a single volume of his four novels about the irresistibly appalling Harry Angstrom offers the perfect opportunity to taste the late 20th-century flavour as distilled by a master." - Andro Linklater 11/25/1995 New York Times Book Review
"Needless to say, poor Rabbit is the very antithesis of [Updike]...[The] combination of cousinly propinquity and temperamental diamagnetism has allowed John Updike a magisterial distance in both dramatizing Rabbit's life and dissecting him in the process. One thinks of Flaubert and his doomed fantasist Emma Bovary, for John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master, like Flaubert, of mesmerizing us with his narrative voice even as he might repel us with the vanities of human desire his scalpel exposes....the Rabbit quartet constitutes a powerful critique of America." - Joyce Carol Oates 09/30/1990 New York Review of Books
"...RABBIT...is a single very long novel written in a traditional and even somewhat old-fashioned form, well known to us from the nineteenth century. It is what can reasonably be called a 'total' work of art....RABBIT is most of all, in its accumulation of detail, a straightforward work of psychological observation, pebble piled on pebble, a masterpiece, in the end, of cool, stony record-taking." - Paul Berman 02/22/2001
"Reading John Updike creates in me that surge of confidence in the literary imagination of my time that the Victorians felt--with far less justice--when they read Dickens. The recent appearance in a single volume of his four novels about the irresistibly appalling Harry Angstrom offers the perfect opportunity to taste the late 20th-century flavour as distilled by a master." - Andro Linklater 11/25/1995 New York Times Book Review
"Needless to say, poor Rabbit is the very antithesis of [Updike]...[The] combination of cousinly propinquity and temperamental diamagnetism has allowed John Updike a magisterial distance in both dramatizing Rabbit's life and dissecting him in the process. One thinks of Flaubert and his doomed fantasist Emma Bovary, for John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master, like Flaubert, of mesmerizing us with his narrative voice even as he might repel us with the vanities of human desire his scalpel exposes....the Rabbit quartet constitutes a powerful critique of America." - Joyce Carol Oates 09/30/1990 New York Review of Books
"...RABBIT...is a single very long novel written in a traditional and even somewhat old-fashioned form, well known to us from the nineteenth century. It is what can reasonably be called a 'total' work of art....RABBIT is most of all, in its accumulation of detail, a straightforward work of psychological observation, pebble piled on pebble, a masterpiece, in the end, of cool, stony record-taking." - Paul Berman 02/22/2001
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