Description
Book SynopsisTwenty-seven critics, as well as Updike himself, provide a kaleidoscopic view of the Rabbit Angstrom saga in 34 reviews and essays.
Trade ReviewThis volume will foment particularly well the necessary conversation among readers and critics about Rabbit and what his complicated fictive life of 40 years reveals about the US. Updike and Rabbit are indispensable to studies of American literature, particularly with the deaths of Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * Choice *
Nearly three dozen previously published reviews and articles provide a sense of the reception of Updike's four Rabbit novels and the novella
Rabbit Remembered. The pieces demonstrate the range of readings possible for the saga and also show how initial praise or objection lays the groundwork for critical arguments using historical and biographical approaches as well as responses from feminism, psychology, and popular culture. * Reference & Research Book News *
Table of ContentsPreface A Chronology of John Updike Introduction Rabbit Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Angstrom "Rabbit Remembered" Appendix: The "Rabbit" Angstrom Timetable Jack De Bellis Primary and Selected Bibliography Index
