Rabbit Redux

Name: Rabbit Redux
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780739376331

Author: John Updike

Series: Rabbit #2

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 01/27/2009

Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Psychological, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

"A triumph."

NEWSDAY

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.

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