{"id":3573,"date":"2016-12-11T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2016-12-11T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:47:26","slug":"updike-called-the-voice-of-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/11\/updike-called-the-voice-of-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike called &#8220;the voice of the middle class&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/sub-updike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3574\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/sub-updike.jpg\" alt=\"sub-updike\" width=\"100\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>In an essay on books written for\u00a0<em>Signature: Making Well-Read Sense of the World,<\/em> Keith Rice contemplates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signature-reads.com\/2016\/10\/american-pastoral-and-9-novels-of-suburban-desolation\/\">&#8220;American Pastoral and 9 Novels of Suburban Desolation,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0among them Updike&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rabbit Angstrom<\/em>, the four-novel collection:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John Updike is arguably the voice of the middle class and suburban angst and his\u00a0<em>Rabbit<\/em> series is his master-stroke. Over the course of four novels, Updike traces the life of Harry &#8216;Rabbit&#8217; Angstrom, a onetime high school basketball star coming to terms with his adult life while trapped in loveless marriage and the confines of a boring sales job. Two of the four\u00a0<em>Rabbit<\/em> novels (<em>Rabbit Is Rich<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Rabbit at Rest<\/em>) were Pulitzer Prize winners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other volumes that made the list (&#8220;novels&#8221; is a misnomer):<\/p>\n<p><em>Revolutionary Road<\/em>, by Richard Yates<br \/>\n<em>The Corrections<\/em>, by Jonathan Franzen<br \/>\n<em>Ordinary People<\/em>, by Judith Guest<br \/>\n<em>The Dinner<\/em>, by Herman Koch<br \/>\n<em>The Age of Miracles<\/em>, by Karen Thompson Walker<br \/>\n<em>Little Children<\/em>, by Tom Perrotta<br \/>\n<em>The Lovely Bones<\/em>, by Alice Sebold<br \/>\n<em>The Stories of John Cheever<\/em>, by John Cheever<br \/>\n<em>American Pastoral<\/em>, by Philip Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an essay on books written for\u00a0Signature: Making Well-Read Sense of the World, Keith Rice contemplates &#8220;American Pastoral and 9 Novels of Suburban Desolation,&#8221;\u00a0among them Updike&#8217;s\u00a0Rabbit Angstrom, the four-novel collection: &#8220;John Updike is arguably the voice of the middle class &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/11\/updike-called-the-voice-of-the-middle-class\/\">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-3573","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\/3573","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=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}