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Praise for John Updike
RABBIT RUN
“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”
–Kansas City Star
“Updike’s punch is powerful.”
–Newsweek
RABBIT REDUX
“A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . A brilliant portrait of middle America.”
–Life
“A truly fine, dazzling, excellent novel in all it’s breadth and depth.”
–Miami Herald
RABBIT RUN
“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”
–Kansas City Star
“Updike’s punch is powerful.”
–Newsweek
RABBIT REDUX
“A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . A brilliant portrait of middle America.”
–Life
“A truly fine, dazzling, excellent novel in all it’s breadth and depth.”
–Miami Herald
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The first and second novels in John Updike’s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books–now in one marvelous volume.
RABBIT, RUN
“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and out own.”
–The Washington Post
“Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings.”
–The Village Voice
RABBIT REDUX
“ ‘Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling–a great and beautiful thing . . .’ these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike’s Rabbit Redux.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece.”
–Time
RABBIT, RUN
“Brilliant and poignant . . . By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit’s sorrow his and out own.”
–The Washington Post
“Precise, graceful, stunning, he is an athlete of words and images. He is also an impeccable observer of thoughts and feelings.”
–The Village Voice
RABBIT REDUX
“ ‘Great in love, in art, boldness, freedom, wisdom, kindness, exceedingly rich in intelligence, wit, imagination, and feeling–a great and beautiful thing . . .’ these hyperboles (quoted from a letter written long ago by Thomas Mann) come to mind after reading John Updike’s Rabbit Redux.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. . . . A masterpiece.”
–Time
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The best edition for these novels, Jun 13 2006
By John Leighton - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rabbit Novels Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Twenty years from now, the Rabbit novels will be one of a host of books read in college gender studies classes to represent the postwar alteration of American marriage and family. It is rather amazing to read of cocktail-swilling couples seeing society dropouts appear on the scene, and then adopting some of the more selfish behaviors for their own. Also, the frank depictions of male-female lives--the various restricting gender roles, is illuminating. I personally found it quite remarkable to read the depictions of life from the early '60s onward--people riding the bus, when divorce was still shocking and far more damaging, how the hippie movement filtered into the middle American lives and tempted men and women to move on.These are classic American novels, capturing the mood and sentiment in the way only the best fiction can: so that it is all "made up" by the author, but feels realer than reality. These novels are models of realist fiction, my favorite kind.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good edition for reading, July 5 2009
By Mark Town "realoldmusicman" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Rabbit Novels Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Just took this and the second volume on a beach vacation and consumed all four novels with eager gratefulness. I had read these first two novels when much younger - my take from later years is even more positive, although Updike's sexual obsession - and that is what it is - gets more tiresome more quickly to an older reader. To someone who has lived through the same times, these Rabbit novels are a gift, an illumination. These editions are far better than the one-volume Everyman edition, which is too heavy and can result in serious injury. Go for it. Read them quickly, in succession. You may be annoyed at times but the cumulative effect is to understand more about America, American decline (in particular note the Japanese Toyota executive's comments in Rabbit at Rest) and probably yourself.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
America through the decades, April 25 2008
By G. Jacobson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rabbit Novels Vol. 1 (Paperback)
I've reread these novels multiple time; each rereading has garnered me more insight into the time in which it evolves. Though ultimately pointing toward the hollowness that directed societal evolution through these times, Updike really catches all/most of the themes of suburban America. Volume 2 has "Rabbit is Rich", my favorite.
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