The Rabbit Angstrom Novels (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1950’s-1980’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Current events, Parents and children, Marriage, 1980’s, Pennsylvania, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Adultery, Drug addiction or addicts, Florida, Cocaine, Counterculture
- Locales: Florida, Brewer, PA, Mt. Judge, PA
Places Discussed
Brewer. Pennsylvania town in which the novels are centered. Updike’s fictionalized version of Reading, Pennsylvania, serves as the principal location for much of the action of the Rabbit novels. Rabbit’s family lives in and around the city, a manufacturing town whose glory days have passed by the time Rabbit reaches adulthood. Updike takes great pains to describe the cityscape in meticulous detail, allowing readers to develop a clear sense of the place that seems to Rabbit to be both a magnet and a trap: He is constantly drawn to the city as “home” and...
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