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...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...
...culture permeating society in 1969 no longer shares his new assumptions. Even in Rabbit's running days, America was not a land where the individual counted all that much, but there was still Jiminy Cricket to sing that "you couldn't ask a waterfall to be a tree." In Redux, when Rabbit and Nelson watch television, the Lone Ranger is mocked, and even Tonto involved in general degradation. To Rabbit, "America is beyond power, it acts as in a dream as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom and wherever American is not, madness rules..." His belief...
...RABBIT REDUX, by John Updike. A sequel to Rabbit Run, in which 36-year-old "Rabbit" Angstrom must cope with a runaway wife, a drug addict and a black militant who calls him Super Chuck...
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...