Volume 17, Number 10 · December 16, 1971
Flopsy Bunny
By Christopher Ricks
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike
Knopf, 407 pp., $7.95
Rabbit Redux brings back after ten years—and brings back to health (Webster's Dictionary, quoted on the blurb)—Rabbit Angstrom, now thirty-six. He's with his wife Janice, but cold and stale. What then happens is that she commits adultery; Rabbit lets her go, and takes up with a classy addicted hippie, Jill, and her black messianic bad angel, Skeeter. Neighborhood arsonists burn down the house, and Jill is killed. Rabbit and Janice come back together. The book is mildly optimistic—is indeed more warmly optimistic than it thinks prudent to make patent.
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