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Title: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike ISBN: 0-449-91182-9 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: a wordsmyth but no more
Comment: I wonder what makes "Rabbit is Rich" so critically acclaimed. Who the hell is interested in an average American car-sales-man in his forties, decaying like a tooth somewhere in the midst of America, the worst place conceivable.
True, Updike is an unsurpassed wordsmith, but I am totally indifferent concerning the plot.
America has not very much redeeming features anyhow, except its literature, but this book is a all a yawn.
Rating: 5
Summary: Updike at his best: Real life, compassionately portrayed
Comment: As good as the first in the "Rabbit" series. "Rabbit Is Rich" is Updike at the peak of his powers, describing in rich, vivid, compassionate detail the feelings, observations, memories, and dreams of recognizable people in mainstream American situations.
As in "Rabbit, Run," the sex scenes (and the sexual energy in general) are poignant and unforgettable.
Through these characters, Updike offers us a portrait of life's restlessness and the pitfalls of growing older. Like "Rabbit, Run" (and unlike "Rabbit Redux") this novel can be read as a standalone and be rewarding.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Superlative Rabbit
Comment: I once heard a learned friend say that 'Rabbit Is Rich' stands alongside Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and Kundera's 'The book of Laughter and Forgetting' as the three seminal works of the Postmodern Era. Now, me, I just a simple commodities trader, the way I would put it is that 'Rabbit Is Rich' is Updike's best. He portrays the ego, the cowardice, the greed, the racism, as well as the strength, charisma and force of character that are inherent to many Alpha Males waging war in the Free Market, whether it be cars or stocks or commodities, the result is the same, ABC: Always Be Closing...Updike hits our breed right on the nose, our Nietzschean love of power, and our true contempt for the politically correct simpering pussies who have no idea how to survive in the marketplace. Rabbit is a regular guy, a regular guy with flaws but not without his own brand of stubborn courage...and it is that hard-headed aspect, his failure to give up that makes him and this book the Richest of all.
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Title: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike ISBN: 0449911942 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Rabbit Redux by John Updike ISBN: 0449911934 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rabbit, Run by John Updike ISBN: 0449911659 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie ISBN: 0380709902 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel by Oscar Hijuelos ISBN: 0060955457 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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