Rabbit Redux, John Updike
Rabbit Redux, John Updike
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Rabbit Redux

Author: John Updike

Series: Rabbit #2

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/27/2009


Synopsis

The stunning sequel to Rabbit, Run that resumes the spiritual quest of the anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.

“[Updike is] an awesomely accomplished writer. . . . For God’s sake, read the book. It may even—will probably—change your life.”—Anatole Broyard, The New York Times

“Amid the upheaval of the Trump years, [Rabbit Redux is] the postwar novel that strikes me as most prophetic.”—Ron Chernow for Time, “25 Books That Capture This American Moment”

Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.

About The Author

John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.Arthur Morey has acted in a number of productions, both Off-Broadway in New York and Off-Loop in Chicago. He’s won several Earphones Awards and has been repeatedly listed by AudioFile Magazine as a Best Voice over the years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on October 25, 2022

These days I wouldn’t bother to read Rabbit Redux at all but I remember then I even liked it in a way. The novel is too artificial and I believe John Updike simply wanted to catch some zeitgeist in just to be in the running… Stavros takes it up quickly. ‘She on anything?’ ‘Who?’ ‘This nympho of yours.’......more

Goodreads review by Mark on January 21, 2025

I gave the first in John Updike’s Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run) – 5-stars. Too easy. The second in the series Rabbit Redux - I found to be a trickier affair. Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom returns 10 years after the first novel, where he spent considerable time going walkabout, and now we see him back with his......more

Goodreads review by Sasha on December 02, 2016

Or Rabbit Gets Woke, in which Rabbit is turned on to and back off of the hippie movement with the convenient help of a barely legal teenager who shows up like "I love blowjobs, can I live with you?" and a crazy black guy who will not shut up. Rabbit Redux is Updike's Go Ask Alice, a bizarre, racist......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 08, 2017

I felt this was the weakest of the Rabbit books. It covers the 60s and has a particularly reprehensible co-star. There is lots of violence and hate in this book - the hideous underside to the sexual revolution. Obviously, Updike was not taken in by all the peace, love and happiness rhetoric and inst......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on February 16, 2020

Like the decade of the 60s, “Rabbit Redux” is a bit tricky. Wee complications arise in so liberal a landscape, especially if the everyman in the novel is absurdly conservative. Add then a haze proliferated by drugs (weed and alcohol and pills) in the mix, and what you have left over is Harry “Rabbit......more


Quotes

“A masterpiece . . . Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit.”—Time
 
“An awesomely accomplished writer . . . For God’s sake, read the book. It may even—will probably change your life.”—Anatole Broyard
 
“A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . a brilliant portrait of middle America.”—Life