{"id":1649,"date":"2013-09-15T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2013-09-15T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:41:17","slug":"justin-cartwrights-book-of-a-lifetime-rabbit-at-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/09\/15\/justin-cartwrights-book-of-a-lifetime-rabbit-at-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Cartwright&#8217;s Book of a Lifetime? Rabbit at Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent [London] for September 13, 2013 featured a piece by writer Justin Cartwright, who picked\u00a0<em>Rabbit at Rest<\/em>\u00a0for his &#8220;Book of a Lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Rabbit at Rest<\/em>\u00a0is a wonderful book, honest, detailed, perceptive and moving,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Although quietly charming and without any symptoms of Bohemia, Updike was ruthlessly forensic with his characters. His description of Rabbit&#8217;s wayward son, Nelson, is devastating: in contrast to the free pass to life that Rabbit grants himself\u2014he is, in his reckoning, tall, athletic, open and attractive, with a full head of hair\u2014his son is small, balding and furtive with a drug habit and\u2014worse\u2014a trite kind of philophy, confidently uttered. How accurately Updike captures the new banality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/reviews\/book-of-a-lifetime-rabbit-at-rest-by-john-updike-8812506.html\">full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent [London] for September 13, 2013 featured a piece by writer Justin Cartwright, who picked\u00a0Rabbit at Rest\u00a0for his &#8220;Book of a Lifetime.&#8221; &#8220;Rabbit at Rest\u00a0is a wonderful book, honest, detailed, perceptive and moving,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Although quietly charming and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/09\/15\/justin-cartwrights-book-of-a-lifetime-rabbit-at-rest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}