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...Larson Redux...
Mergenthaler Redux...
Compared with Rabbit, Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971), this third novel about the life and times of Harold C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom seems, at first, uneventful. No infants drown in bathtubs, no houses burn down, leaving innocent dead behind. The year is 1979. Skylab is falling, gas prices are rising, and Rabbit, 46, sells Toyotas for Springer Motors, the firm founded by his late father-in-law. His on-and-off marriage to Janice is on again, glumly and apparently for good. They live with her mother and sock away money. Rabbit thinks less and less about his days...
...something more: a superlative comic novel that is also an American romance. -By Paul Gray -While he was writing Rabbit, Run, more than 20 years ago, John Updike discovered that "I enjoyed being inside this guy's skin." The feeling revived a decade later, when he began Rabbit Redux: "It all seemed to be there, he seemed to be ready, waiting for me, and I didn't have much trouble fitting back into a Rabbit sort of rhythm." By then, Updike realized that still another sequel might occur to him: "I left some dangling threads in that book...
...music industry. Either way, a healthy thread of the Old is still noticeable in the fabric of this studio slick, neon release: the familiar fibers--sun and stars, heart-and-drum-beat--have been incorporated in what feels at first an itchy, polyester-rich blend to those expecting Browne redux in torn T-shirt and broke-in jeans. And though the traditional elements remain, their combination is not the poetry alternating precision with ambiguity that made Browne's early albums all the more vital for their teenage (year, we got a band together and cut an album in the garage...