{"id":3078,"date":"2015-08-18T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:46:56","slug":"rabbit-makes-another-best-novels-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/18\/rabbit-makes-another-best-novels-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit makes another Best Novels list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-editor-reviewer <strong>Robert McCrum<\/strong> has spent two years considering the 100 greatest novels written in English, and The Guardian recently published his final choices. Updike&#8217;s <em>Rabbit Redux<\/em> comes in at #88.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harry &#8216;Rabbit&#8217; Angstrom, Updike&#8217;s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America&#8217;s great literary protagonists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty good company, and probably an interesting conversation to eavesdrop on if the three of them ever had to share\u00a0a raft. However, Huck and Jay made McCrum&#8217;s &#8220;All Time Top 10&#8221; list\u2014<em>Emma, Wuthering Heights, Moby-Dick, Middlemarch, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Heart of Darkness, The Rainbow, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, The Great Gatsby<\/em>\u2014while Rabbit did not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/aug\/17\/the-100-best-novels-written-in-english-the-full-list\">&#8220;The 100 best novels written in English: the full list&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In writing about his process, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/aug\/16\/100-best-novels-bunyan-to-carey-robert-mccrum?CMP=share_btn_tw\">McCrum<\/a> said that he selected, &#8220;where possible, the title most central to the author&#8217;s voice and vision, which is not necessarily the most famous.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-editor-reviewer Robert McCrum has spent two years considering the 100 greatest novels written in English, and The Guardian recently published his final choices. Updike&#8217;s Rabbit Redux comes in at #88. &#8220;Harry &#8216;Rabbit&#8217; Angstrom, Updike&#8217;s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/18\/rabbit-makes-another-best-novels-list\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","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=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}