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The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story. Harry Angstrom - known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters - finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife. How he resolves - or further complicates - his problems makes a compelling listen.
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- L. Berlyne
- 02-16-09
Bring on more Rabbit!
I became totally engrossed in this wonderful book.
It tells the story of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who's now in his late thirties and has long since stopped running away from his marriage and other responsibilities. He shirks responsibility in another kind of way by being passive about everything around him. When Rabbit's wife has an affair she challenges him to make a stand and fight to get her back. Not only does he fail her in this but he then gets mixed up in what turns out to be a disastrous chain of events. With his wife gone he agrees to take in a young run away who becomes his lover, and she in turn brings in Skeeter, her black radical, dope shooting friend. Rabbit finds himself in the middle of a chaotic world that collapses around him. But despite the sad turn of events, Rabbit is somewhat transformed by his experiences with Skeeter, hence the Latin title word "redux" meaning restored,and life for Rabbit goes on.
The characters (with the exception perhaps of the too political Skeeter) are very convincing, and Rabbit himself is such an ordinary man who could well be our own neighbor. Another part of Updike's brilliance lies in his perceptive analysis of emotional interactions and in the language that is so rich in astute detail.
The narrator also enriched the whole Rabbit experience by acting out the different characters with distinct voices and he really brought this audiobook to life in my mind's eye.
It's probably best to listen to this Rabbit series in the correct order starting with 'Rabbit, Run' if you want to understand the characters and their backgrounds fully. But it's not an absolute must - so if you fancy this one first, go for it. I just can't get enough of Rabbit and don't want the series to end!
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- Al
- 01-30-18
Really poor edit
Why is this version inclusive of the narrator saying, “Go back.” and rereading, skipping and reading sections out of order. Not good and not the quality I a used to from Audible
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- L. Kerr
- 01-31-10
Seamy Side of the Summer of Love
Rabbit Redux is compared unfavorably by the critics to the other Rabbit books. In my opinion, this is unfair. Updike's prose is uniformly smooth and rich. So apparently the critics don't like the content.
The book caputures the ethos of 1969--the peak and end of the Hippie Sixties. I was there. I was 12--the same age as Rabbit's son, Nelson. To me, that period was not the groovie barrel of fun Gen-X's think, rather it was often chaotic and terrifying. The world felt like it was going to heck in a handbag.
Updike caputures the zeitgeist. 18 year old rich girl Jill is the perfect rich hippie chick strung out on drugs. Nam vet Skeeter is a mix between a chicken hearted Black Panther and Charlie Manson, complete with pseudo-intellectual rants about how the Man is keeping the brothers down and needs to be shot.
Rabbit himself is a lazy whimp. He sees his world falling apart but would rather get stoned on Skeeter's pot. He could care less about his adulterous wife, and though he loves his son, he's hardly the model father in that he lets a strung out hippie chick and a sociopathic black guy take over his house.
Like most modernistic authors, there are no pure good guys or bad guys in this novel. Everyone is a dingy gray. And such is life.
I enjoyed Updike's lapidary prose and his faithful characterization of how the late 60s was the springboard for the ensuing decades's sins--sex, drugs, and money.
I would have given this novel 5 stars, but on several CD's the narrator makes mistakes and then say's "go back," which is apparently a signal to the producer to rewind the CD. The narrator can hardly be at fault for this, rather the producer needs a slap on the cheek for abandoning the helm.
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- A. Volmer
- 05-18-21
Great production
I noticed that some of the reviewers mistook various occasions of "Go Back" in the audio book as poor editing. That's actually a misconception - the editing is great, no problem there. The instances where the narrator says "Go Back" are part of the book's text; it's where we listen to Harry Angstrom's stream of consciousness while typesetting at the print shop. He often has to "Go Back" because he made a typesetting mistake.
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- Robin K.
- 08-12-23
Brilliant reading
This is an outstanding reading of one of the most important American novels - I recommend it highly.
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- Marie Berube
- 07-03-23
Beautifully written and read
Tantalizing descriptions and thought provoking themes. A wonderful second book in the rabbit series! Highly recommend!
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-30-23
Awful
There is nothing I liked about this novel. The only plus was that the narrator spoke clearly, and I was able speed it up enough to get through it quickly. Rabbit Angstrom is repulsive, and none of the other characters are very likeable.
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- ChefBoy RD
- 04-05-22
There is a place for vulgarity but,
I will preface this review by noting that I rarely write a negative book view.
With that as a lead-in, I believe the hype over the Rabbit novels and Updike is much overdone.
yes, there is a place for vulgar and even offensive language to express concepts of division, oppression, and hatred.
However, this novel is consumed with fowl.... actually shameful... language from start to finish. I found it beyond vulgar, and misogonystic. My sense is that the Updike's language was used as a lazy crutch instead of expending energy on composing more meaningful dialogue.
I found no redeeming value in Redux and don't believe it has contributed anything to general readers or, to our larger society.
I would not recommend Rabbit "anything" to anyone.
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- bpc
- 08-24-21
The worst of the series
This one is Updike ripping on the 1960s. Reading is choppy at times.
Sex, drugs, and some rather ridiculous characters and situations.
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- Reed Ramlow
- 08-22-20
Wrong Rabbit
More than midway through Rabbit Redux on Audible, I shelved it. I might return to it. Probably not. I suppose I chose the wrong Rabbit novel in the series, and the wrong Updike. No character won my sympathy, no one to root for, though I suppose Rabbit was undergoing a transformation by housing the execrable Skeeter and the runaway teen girl, Jill. Maybe I could root for the hapless son, Nelson, who has a hapless father. What held my interest, for a while, were the later 60's societal issues of racism, police brutality, protesting the capitalistic system, which persist 50+ years on, and Updike’s cynical take on them. I liked Janice, the cheating wife. Too bad she went away earlier in the novel. Perhaps she would have breathed life in the novel by returning home and throwing out the trash, including Rabbit. I won’t know, so no spoiler here. The narration got on my nerves but the narrator only reflected the annoying story.
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- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is 26 years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness, and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path.
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A Thinking Man's Novel
- By L. Berlyne on 01-12-09
By: John Updike
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The Witches of Eastwick
- A Novel
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play.
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Bewitched!
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By: John Updike
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The John Updike Audio Collection
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, John Updike
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975.
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Good read
- By Jody on 06-03-04
By: John Updike
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Couples
- A Novel
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage and adultery in America.
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Could not finish
- By Mike R on 05-27-21
By: John Updike
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Selected Stories
- The Alligators, A & P, Pigeon Feathers, The Family Meadow, Witnesses, Separating
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: John Updike
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the 100-odd he has published. Mr. Updike, when asked to described his method of reading aloud, said "I try to picture the things described and to speak the words distinctly, and to let the emotion come through on its own." The method works beautifully.
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Life, Love and Chivalry
- By W Perry Hall on 07-12-15
By: John Updike
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The Centaur
- By: John Updike
- Narrated by: John MacDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell's 15-year-old son, Peter.
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Narrator eats words
- By cjh on 03-03-20
By: John Updike
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