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FICTION 1. Wheels, Hailey (1 last week) 2. The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (2) 3. Message from Malaga, Maclnnes (3) 4. The Exorcist, Blatty (4) 5. The Winds of War, Wouk (6) 6. The Betsy, Robbins (5) 7. Rabbit Redux, Updike (8) 8. Nemesis, Christie 9. Our Gang, Roth (10) 10. Bear Island, MacLean...
...Wheels, Hailey (2 last week) 2. The Day of the Jackal, Forsyth (1) 3. Message from Malaga, Maclnnes (4) 4. The Exorcist, Blatty (3) 5. The Betsy, Robbins (6) 6. The Winds of War, Wouk (7) 7. Bear Island, MacLean (5) 8. Rabbit Redux, Updike 9. The Other, Tryon (9) 10. Our Gang, Roth...
...that hurled magnetized dog biscuits, which dogs chased as the biscuits automatically flew back. Several children proposed motorized treadmills, one of which was patrolled by four armed guards to keep the poor pooch from running off it. Another treadmill design featured a screen on which a movie of a rabbit was projected while air blowers bombarded the dog with bunny scent. A girl put her pet on springs that jiggled its feet. A device that pulled dogs along was propelled by an ingenious power plant: the energy was created by the dog's barking into a speaking tube. Only...
Such a well-programmed novel might be described as "situation tragedy," were it not for the suspicion that Updike also intended a sort of nursery fable for grownups: naughty Rabbit gets into strange cabbage patches but is always chastened and led back home. Yet Redux is superior to recent novels that trudge after social significance like recruits in new boots. Updike, after all, owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit. How the truth about Janice's well-known affair finally gets on the kitchen table is a tidy masterpiece...
...character, the older Rabbit is far from flawless. His tongue is sometimes a trifle too sharp for his faculties. But there is something hard and durable about him. It is as if his brief glory as an athlete left him with an inner grace that will never be completely hidden by the sallowing of middle age. He possesses a certain open-endedness and possibilities, if not for change, at least for further misadventure...