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FIFTEEN YEARS have seen John Updike create a woodlands mythology out of the manicured green of suburbia, an imitation rather than a statement of what it has been like to be alive in America. Rabbit Run, The Centaur, Rabbit Redux are labors of domestic love, and if sometimes Updike resembles that tranquil genre of English novel, it is out of a modesty as to the possibilities of writing, a concern for the world as it is, and a desire to leave it untrammeled by authorial intrusion...
...Rosovsky's comments in the Yellow Pages honed in on such specific problems that the letter left considerable confusion over his goal: Was it a Redbook Redux or merely a compendium of detailed and thus ephemeral and short - term revisions? Rosovsky himself acknowledges that he has switched intentions: "There is no contradiction, I've just changed my mind. I began with a notion that there were lots of things we could clearly do better that if we fixed up six to eight quite obvious problems it would justify the effort. I have come to realize more is needed." Rosovsky...
...graduate student of herself; and Rinsler, a cynical organizer for The Movement. A reader soon finds, though, that all three tend to talk (and think) like a John Leonard review. Here is Rinsler inwardly fulminating at "Melville's bourgeois psychodrama ... Ahab as entrepreneur cum zealot ... Babbitt redux; whale oil poured on troubled waters." Groans Marcy enduring the pain of delivery of her baby: "If this is nature, give me artifice...
...aching for new literary content. And now, just in the past year or so, two novels have appeared that make glimmer the hope that the old Genre might be back on her feet before long. Gravity's Rainbow, when it is working, is one of these, Updike's Rabbit Redux is another...
...RABBIT REDUX, however, and now in some of the Museums and Women stories, Updike honestly reflects an untidy world and explores its moral, emotional, and sociological forces, without trying to find in it values similar to those he experienced elsewhere. From the lower floors of the middle class to its monied and educated ceiling, Updike shows men losing their beliefs in America as an overarching upholder of the world's secrets, letting go of religion or consciously holding on to it for its ethical mythology, gaining consciousness of the lack of social health in their local and national community...