Word: brewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glad in a way, that I did write Redux instead of pulling ahead with it. This, again, was' a bit of a leap of the imagination--I haven't lived in Pennsylvania for a long time now and this Brewer is a rather different Brewer from the one in Rabbit Run--which was based on scenes in my childhood where I knew every wrinkle in the pavement. I still felt on solid ground in this book in a way...the next book will have to be a jump in the dark...
...Like What You Give Nolan 23. I Don't Blame You At All Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 24. Wild Horses Rolling Stones 25. Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye 26. Ain't No Sunshine Bill Withers 27. Bring the Boys Home Freda Payne 28. One Toke Over the Line Brewer and Shipley 29. When I'm Dead and Gone McGuiness Flint 30. You Are Everything Stylistics 31. Mandolin Wind Rod Stewart 32. Got to Be There Michael Jackson 33. Get On Up, Get Into It, Get Involved James Brown 34. Do Me Right Detroit Emeralds 35. It Don't Come...
...final gesture of revolt. He was naive and inarticulate, and not wholly conscious of the implications his acts held for others. But his faith in that single emancipating impulse was beyond his neighbors' compromises: Rabbit became their conscience and scapegoat. To his parents, he was "the worst kind of Brewer bum"; to his in-laws, the destroyer of his wife Janice; to his mistress, something too inspiring...
...Rabbit couldn't ponder the problem, only rebound emotionally off surrounding situations. He expressed himself through actions, which, in the clogged Brewer-Mt. Judge landscape, made him incomprehensible to more interiorized residents. His mistress never quite understood why Rabbit asked for a blow-job, or Mrs. Eccles why he slapped her on the rump. But Rabbit had his reasons, deep-rooted ones, true to his sympathetic nature. And because he was tired of lives too needlessly convoluted for direct personal response, because if we are in hell, we must build something to protect ourselves, and to build with the second...
...Rabbit Redux (redux: Latin, "led back") we find that the course of a decade hasn't brought him any closer to what he wanted. It has, in fact, taken him down a peg. Angstrom is back in Brewer, working with his father as a linotyper (a fading breed...) in a print shop. There are, of course, enormous differences, in Rabbit and family, in Brewer, and in Updike's own attitudes and approaches...