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...White Rabbit is about the last day in an 88-year-old woman's life. This may sound like a depressing and dull plot for a book; however, White Rabbit is neither. Instead, it is an engaging and perceptive portrayal of the life of Ruth Caster Hubble, an endearing curmudgeon who lives in the Paradise Lagoon Condominiums in Southern California...
...White Rabbit is also the first novel by Kate Phillips, a 29-year-old Harvard Ph.D. student in American Civilization. The praise for Phillips' first novel has been plentiful. The New York Times called her "gifted" and describes her novel as "a remarkable debut." USA Today listed the book as one of its "Best Bets." All this recognition is very welcome to Phillips, who is clearly enjoying the success of her novel. In spite of her youth, Phillips has been looking forward to becoming a published author for many years...
...character of Ruth was loosely inspired by Phillips' grandmother. "White rabbit" or "rabbit rabbit" is a game that Phillips used to play with her grandmother and the rest of her family: on the first day of each month, the first person to say "white rabbit" would have good luck for the rest of the month...
...employed artful compressions, alluding to past events, when necessary, through a vivid present. Sometimes their titles make this focus clear: A Month of Sundays, Memories of the Ford Administration (which lasted, for those who missed or have forgotten it, about 30 months). Even the tetralogy of books that portray Rabbit Angstrom concentrates on spasms of activity set at 10-year intervals of his life. It is therefore surprising to learn that In the Beauty of the Lilies (Knopf; 491 pages; $25.95) covers a whopping 80 years and four generations of a single American family. In his mid-60s, Updike...
...course, the capital of cabin fever was the capital. Monday was the day the government was to reopen. But when the day arrived, the only open shop was the Supreme Court, with Justice David Souter catching a lift to work after failing to dig his Volkswagen Rabbit out of a drift. John Sturdivant, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, speculated, "It's kind of God's revenge on the craziness of Washington...