Volume 37, Number 16 · October 25, 1990
Long-Distance Runner
By Garry Wills
Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
Knopf, 512 pp., $21.95
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. 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).[1] There is a compulsive tidiness about this scheme which tries to make up in comprehensiveness what it has increasingly lost in plausibility. Updike's own workmanlike habits are connected with the interests he lends his characters.
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