Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest) (Everyman's Library)

Rabbit Superb

I've read this book and loved it! The writing style is a masterpiece of skill. The meganovel depicts detailed intricacies of the everyday American until retirement age. This text will be a standard for American fiction well into the next 2 centuries in English Literature college curriculums along with the works of John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The masterwork of Master Updike

This is the heart of the Updike oeuvre. It captures midcentury American realities with an exactitude and brilliance unequaled. A tremendous eye is at work here observing but also a remarkable ear listening to and echoing the music and speech of American everyday life. Much of this of Updike is not my world, certainly the world of adult betrayals , but it is impossible not to recognize in it an authentic depiction of so much of what America proclaimed and advertised itself to be in his time. Updike catches and is attuned to changes in social reality.He is a tremendous learner, a man whose interest in so many different areas of life and mind reflect themselves in the intelligence of his fiction. As for his depiction of relationships he describes often worlds of feeling I do not really know. I must admit that for me anyway there is often a sadness and sense of emptiness in reading of small abandonments and betrayals. But anyone who wishes to know American fiction of the twentieth century , and often American fiction at its best has no choice but to read the Rabbit works and confront this most American of American worlds.

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