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The 'Rabbit' Tetralogy - Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest by John Updike |
Never having read Updike, I intended to try the first but just had to read all four and now understand why Julian Barnes reveres him. Written ten years apart from 1950 these novels capture the zeitgeist of small town, middle-class America. Harry Angstrom, flawed but endearing, attempts to escape the constraints and responsibilities of marriage and family life. With his unique prose style, Updike's portrayal of the human condition is utterly convincing. He said he was attempting "to give the mundane it's beautiful due". Bravo, Mr Updike!
(Denise Lewis - bwl 64 Spring 2012 ) |
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