Rabbit Tales: Poetry and Politics in John Updike's Rabbit Novels

By Lawrence R. Broer

Book Overview

In the tales of Rabbit Angstrom - Rabbit, Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990 - Updike's Rabbit, the aging high-school basketball star adrift in the century's confusion, is an archetypal American hero, one strikingly real and individual yet emblematic of his class, his country and his era. Updike's achievements in these novels as poet and historian - his weaving of lyric and epic, of art and four decades of American politics - require that the novels be read on a variety of levels, thus lending themselves to the critical approaches represented in Rabbit Tales.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308997
• ISBN13: 9780817308995
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"