Rabbit Redux
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
The second installment in John Updike's celebrated Rabbit tetralogy, Rabbit Redux is a landmark work of American literary fiction that chronicles a turbulent chapter in the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom against the backdrop of a nation in crisis. Set in 1969, the novel unfolds as Rabbit's wife Janice leaves him for another man, sending his carefully ordered suburban life into a spiral that draws in a cast of volatile characters — including a young runaway and a Black Vietnam veteran — who converge under his roof in Brewer, Pennsylvania. Updike uses Rabbit's disorientation and stubborn, working-class conservatism as a lens through which he dissects the fractures of late-1960s America: the Vietnam War, the moon landing, racial tension, and the sexual revolution. The prose is bold and visceral, rendered in Updike's signature style of luminous, precise observation that transforms the mundane into the mythic. A deeply unsettling yet compulsively readable portrait of a man and a country both struggling to find their footing, it stands as one of the most ambitious and socially penetrating American novels of the twentieth century.
Author: John Updike
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Andre Deutsch
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
The second installment in John Updike's celebrated Rabbit tetralogy, Rabbit Redux is a landmark work of American literary fiction that chronicles a turbulent chapter in the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom against the backdrop of a nation in crisis. Set in 1969, the novel unfolds as Rabbit's wife Janice leaves him for another man, sending his carefully ordered suburban life into a spiral that draws in a cast of volatile characters — including a young runaway and a Black Vietnam veteran — who converge under his roof in Brewer, Pennsylvania. Updike uses Rabbit's disorientation and stubborn, working-class conservatism as a lens through which he dissects the fractures of late-1960s America: the Vietnam War, the moon landing, racial tension, and the sexual revolution. The prose is bold and visceral, rendered in Updike's signature style of luminous, precise observation that transforms the mundane into the mythic. A deeply unsettling yet compulsively readable portrait of a man and a country both struggling to find their footing, it stands as one of the most ambitious and socially penetrating American novels of the twentieth century.