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Sunday, 01 July 2007 19:00 |
by Updike, John
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom was a local high school basketball hero in small town Pennsylvania. It is the early sixties, he is 26 years old and he hates his job, his wife and isn't too fond of his son, his parents, his home town or his life in general. He runs off on his pregnant wife and shacks up with a prostitute in the next town over. What may seem as the irresponsible adventures of a selfish man is really an examination of American society. We are left to ask is Rabbit just full of ennui or is the world really as he views it: shallow and ultimately pointless? A classic piece of twentieth century literature.
- reviewed by Ed, Morrison Regional, PLCMC
by Updike, John
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom was a local high school basketball hero in small town Pennsylvania. It is the early sixties, he is 26 years old and he hates his job, his wife and isn't too fond of his son, his parents, his home town or his life in general. He runs off on his pregnant wife and shacks up with a prostitute in the next town over. What may seem as the irresponsible adventures of a selfish man is really an examination of American society. We are left to ask is Rabbit just full of ennui or is the world really as he views it: shallow and ultimately pointless? A classic piece of twentieth century literature.
- reviewed by Ed, Morrison Regional, PLCMC
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