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Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
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Synopses & Reviews Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than a medal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, and from himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turn back.... Review: John Updike's two Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to him for the last two Rabbit novels, and yet only now is the Rabbit tetralogy appearing in audio form (as indeed is its sequel, the novella "Rabbit Remembered"). A long wait, perhaps, but many of the infelicities of the early days of audio books have thus been avoided. The match between reader Arthur Morey and the life and times of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom ... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) couldn't be improved upon; in fact, for this reader and listener, the work has been enhanced. Morey's down-to-earth, matte-finished voice complements the novels' intense materiality and dailiness. He shades it in various degrees to reflect the characters, male and female, old and young, their race, their class and even, most entertainingly, the formulaic hack journalism of the Linotype-setting passages in "Rabbit Redux." Morey delivers the general narration with impeccable understatement, conveying the sense of dissatisfaction, the air of moribundity and of "stifled terror," that pervades the work as a whole. His slow pacing allows the reader to savor the precision of Updike's imagery, as — to quote a passage describing Rabbit's existence after his wife leaves him — the "days, pale slices between nights ... blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade." Powers, who reviews audio books for The Washington Post Book World, writes a literary column for the Boston Globe. Reviewed by Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
(hide most of this review)Review: "Brilliant and poignant...By his compassion, clarity of insight and crystal-bright prose, he makes Rabbit's sorrow his and our own." --The Washington Post
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780449911655
- Author:
- Updike, John
- Publisher:
- Ballantine Books
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- American
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- Novels and novellas
- Subject:
- Grief
- Subject:
- Psychological fiction
- Subject:
- Pennsylvania
- Subject:
- Angstrom, harry (fictitious character)
- Subject:
- Middle class men
- Subject:
- Grief -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Angstrom, Harry
- Edition Description:
- 1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
- Series Volume:
- 104-311
- Publication Date:
- August 1996
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 8.32x5.52x.74 in. .56 lbs.
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