Rabbit Redux (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Updike
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, American Dream, Pennsylvania, Vietnam War, Fathers, Adultery, Counterculture, Arson
- Locales: Brewer, PA
In Rabbit Redux, Rabbit believes that the whole United States is doing what he did ten years earlier. Rabbit appears to have made his peace with the world and has settled down to fulfill his various obligations. He works as a typesetter in the same shop where his father has worked for more than thirty years. (He works at a trade, however, that is soon to be replaced by a new technology.) In this novel, Rabbit is more a passive listener and observer than a searcher. The racial and cultural turmoil that he sees on television literally comes into his home, and Rabbit is forced to...
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