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JUDY COOKE

Was it right to make man in the image of rabbit? For all its narrative energy and wit, [Rabbit is Rich] is an immensely depressing book, perhaps because the author refuses to be angry about a society slowly and deliberately destroying itself…. There's plenty of sex and pain: no passion, no disgust, no dignity. Updike is too important a writer to leave it at that; it's time he cleaned out the hutch. (p. 19)

Judy Cooke, "Still Running," in New Statesman (© 1982 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 103, No. 2652, January 15, 1982, pp. 19-20.∗

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1. Introduction
2. Granville Hicks
3. Bernard A. Schopen
4. Miles Donald
5. Roger Sale
6. Eliot Fremont-Smith
7. Thomas R. Edwards
8. Daniel M. Murtaugh
9. Gene Lyons
10. V. S. Pritchett
11. Alfred Kazin
12. Donald J. Greiner
13. Russell Davies
14. Judy Cooke
15. Robert Taubman
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