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Rabbit Is Rich (Paperback)

de John Updike (Author)
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It is 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He has dropped to a slow walk in order to enjoy the fruits of middle-aged affluence. True, he avoids mirrors, where he used to love them, and a succession of chins ripple gently where there used to be one, but he has made it.


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"The reviewers seemed to be under the impression that the hero was a terrible character. It's incredible! No, I think it's the most interesting American novel I've read in quite a long time"

-- Mary McCarthy, interviewed in The Paris Review

"The power of the novel comes from a sense, not absolutely unworthy of Thomas Hardy, that the universe hangs over our fates like a great sullen hopeless sky. There is real pain in the book, and a touch of awe"

-- Norman Mailer, Esquire

"...An American protest against all the attempts to impress upon us the 'healthy, life-loving and comic' as our standard for novels. It is sexy, in bad taste, violent, and basically cynical. And good luck to it."

-- Angus Wilson, naming three Books of the Year in the Observer

And Rabbit Redux

"Against all odds, Rabbit Redux is a sequel that succeeds; it is in every respect uncannily superior to its distinguished predecessor and deserves to achieve even greater critical and popular acclaim."

-- Brendan Gill, The New Yorker

"I can think of no stronger vindication of the claims of essentially realistic fiction than this extraordinary synthesis of the disparate elements of contemporary experience. Rabbit Redux is a great achievement, by far the most audacious and successful book Updike has written."

-- Richard Locke, The New York Times Book Review --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.


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5.0étoiles sur 5 And the future one day comes, Juil 4 2004
This review is from: Rabbit Is Rich (Paperback)
Sad is the day when a man realizes that he is getting old --this is the day when he also realizes that what he used to call future is his actual present. This is when some people think that you don't live one day more --but you have one day less. This is sad and depressive, but this is the tone that John Updike, one of the best American writers ever, chooses to conclude the third installment in his Rabbit quartet.

Keeping up the same level of the two previous Rabbit novels, "Rabbit is Rich" was deservedly awarded with Pulitzer Prize, American Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. Not bad for a novel about man who has a sort of Peter Pan syndrome and he's afraid of growing up --although this is not this clear stated in any novel. In the very beginning the narrative meditates on the fear of death, and from page one on, we can realize that there is no place to go but down.

Rabbit, his family, friends and enemies are back more or less ten years after the events depicted in the previous book. Not only is he older, but also he is wiser and bitter. He's living with his mother in law, and running the car lot that his father in law left. His son Nelson is at college, but sooner will be back --and so will problems.

In this novel, Nelson has a major role too. He is becoming sort of a Rabbit Jr. --his fears, mistakes, anxieties are more or less the same his father had. Generation after generation, people are still the same --we're the same kind of 'animals' after all. And Harry Rabbit Angstrom can't do much to change his son --that hates him because of Jill's death. Incapable of any kind of communication, the two can only drift apart, hoping that time can heal the pain.

Updike keeps the detailed examination of the sexual moral of the middle class. After a close look at the 50's and 60's sexual conduct, the author turns his magnifying glass to couples in the late 70's. This was when marriages were suffering the consequences of the sexual revolution, and an enormous boredom is replacing the joy of the discovery of a new sexuality in the previous decade. These were also the time of high consumerism. Rabbit is obsessed with a magazine called "Consumer Reports". It seems that the whole country is in a time of prosperity and people can spend as much as they want --but it will have consequences in the end.

It is not a fluke that Updike writes great prose. His text is full of wit and imagination --but what I like best is how accurate he can portray that society that is falling apart. His sharp dialogues are pitch perfect, and the cynicism is only a plus in the narrative.

Like Charlie --Rabbit's coworker and friend, and his wife's ex-lover-- once said: "That was the good old days. These are the bad new days". And Rabbit doesn't seem to have a bright future ahead of him and his family --which, by the way, is a promise to another great novel, called "Rabbit at Rest". As, it turns out the future one day always comes.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 a wordsmyth but no more, Déc 19 2002
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This review is from: Rabbit Is Rich (Hardcover)
I wonder what makes "Rabbit is Rich" so critically acclaimed. Who the hell is interested in an average American car-sales-man in his forties, decaying like a tooth somewhere in the midst of America, the worst place conceivable.
True, Updike is an unsurpassed wordsmith, but I am totally indifferent concerning the plot.
America has not very much redeeming features anyhow, except its literature, but this book is a all a yawn.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Updike at his best: Real life, compassionately portrayed, Janv. 6 2002
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This review is from: Rabbit Is Rich (Paperback)
As good as the first in the "Rabbit" series. "Rabbit Is Rich" is Updike at the peak of his powers, describing in rich, vivid, compassionate detail the feelings, observations, memories, and dreams of recognizable people in mainstream American situations.

As in "Rabbit, Run," the sex scenes (and the sexual energy in general) are poignant and unforgettable.

Through these characters, Updike offers us a portrait of life's restlessness and the pitfalls of growing older. Like "Rabbit, Run" (and unlike "Rabbit Redux") this novel can be read as a standalone and be rewarding.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 How Much Is Enough?
When even the hapless Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom of Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux finds himself living the American Dream, circa 1980, in his own typical fashion, that is... Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Rabbit Review
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Wonderful writing that'll make you squirm
No question about it: Updike knows how to do middle-aged, middle-American angst as well or better than any other writer. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 A rich Rabbit is a Rabbit none-the-less
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Priceless, Gorgeous Writing
Brilliant, brilliant, of course...but the thing that separates this Rabbit tale from the last two is how very little happens event-wise in the entire novel (that it is the most... Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 well written late-seventies angst and self indulgence
Updike trys to be insightful in this book but kind of falls down for an answer. Maybe he wasn't in touch with himself or may be thats the point about Harry Angstrom the central... Read more
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