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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      24 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9781139172653
      9780521433372
      9780521438841
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.286kg, 130 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.28kg, 132 Pages
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    Still John Updike's most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the character of Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one of those middle-class Americans who, in Updike's words, aren't 'especially beautiful or bright or urban' but about whom there is a lot worth saying. The fallible hero struggles with his own sexuality, his religious feelings, the difficulties of being a son and father, and with the changes in American society that seem to suffocate him. Updike's writing is charged with narrative energy and pictorial accuracy that illuminate the present moment; it evokes the tension between the drab compromises we are forced to make with age and the religious mystery that sustains us. Written by a distinguished group of international scholars, these essays examine both the technical mastery and thematic range that make Updike's work one of the most significant achievements in modern American fiction and one that continues to provoke fresh critical insight.

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    "...a model reputation study that draws on Updike's own reports of compositional method and intent." Jerome Klinkowitz, American Literary Scholarship

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