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...RABBIT REDUX by John Updike. 406 pages. Knopf...
...Rabbit Redux (Rabbit led back), Rabbit, at 36, is still married to Janice. The time is the apogee of the Swinging Sixties. Rawest obscenities have become household words. Adulteries are public events, and man is about to land on the moon-a lifeless body that Updike employs to suggest the deadness of Rabbit's own existence. Janice still has her special little knack for attracting attention. "I'm searching for a valid identity and I suggest you do the same," she tells Rabbit in her best TV talk-show jargon. Her search...
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...
Several rare first editions of Dryden's works from the Pearson Sale in London: "Astera Redux," 1660; "MacFlecknot," 1682; "Alexander's Feast," 1697; "Three Poems upon the Death of Oliver, Lord Protector of England," by Edmund Waller, John Dryden and Mr. Sprat and "Lachrymal Musarum," 1650; were recently presented to the University by A. McF. Davis '54, F. C. Halsey '68, and G. C. Beals '98. These books almost complete the Library's collection of first editions of Dryden. A first edition of John Donne: "The First Anniverserie," and "The Second Anniverserie," 1612, were purchased by the Library with...