![]() ![]() Updike plays not only with a zoological conceit, but with a strained scientific one as well. ![]() If they do not find a way to fade into the landscape, they are easy prey to their enemies. Rabbits start fast but tire just as fast. That was the era in which Kerouac and others were out on the road, and Rabbit kept trying to dawdle after them in his own feckless way. Not that there was much except some gardening to suggest tidiness in the Angstrom of the 1950s. Updike’s own workmanlike habits are connected with the interests he lends his characters. 1 There is a compulsive tidiness about this scheme which tries to make up in comprehensiveness what it has increasingly lost in plausibility. ![]() He has submitted decadeend reports on Angstrom in the Fifties ( Rabbit, Run, 1960), the Sixties ( Rabbit Redux, 1971), the Seventies ( Rabbit Is Rich, 1981), and now the Eighties ( Rabbit at Rest). Though rabbits are supposed to be short-lived, John Updike has kept his fictional Harry Angstrom, known in high school as Rabbit, on the run through most of Updike’s own professional life. ![]()
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