Rabbit Redux

from oldblack

Ms Pearl...Nancy...I tried. In fact I spent 5 days trying and got to around page 250 out of a weighty 400. But as your Rule of Fifty implies, life is too short to waste on reading a book which really isn't doing anything for me. Actually, it started off OK. Harry Angstrom's wife leaves him, and e...

from alexrichman

Presumably the dud of Updike's Rabbit sequels, this instalment was obsessed with sleaze and slavery, whisking us away from the superb stories of its predecessor and instead harping on endlessly about black messiahs and middle-class concubines. The sub-plot involving Rabbit's wife Janice comes clo...

from Lisa.Johnson.James

This installment of the Rabbit Angstrom series takes place 10 years after the tragedy that ended the first book. Harry is now working in a printing house with his Dad, & they have bought a house in an up & coming neighborhood. Janice takes up with Charlie Stavros, a car salesman at Janice's Dad's...

from figre

Let's face it, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is not a very likable person. And he has a tendency to let life happen around him. Even when it looks like he will take action, the action actually seems to take him. (Yes, I know that is a rather blithe statement, but it is true for this character.) He is a...

from PilgrimJess

This is the second in the Updike series about Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom and his life has moved on ten years. Rabbit appears to have made his peace with the world and has settled down. He works as a typesetter in the same print-shop where his father has worked for more than thirty years (a trade tha...