{"id":5150,"date":"2021-06-25T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2021-07-04T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T14:21:59","slug":"rabbit-angstrom-named-one-of-the-guardians-100-best-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/06\/25\/rabbit-angstrom-named-one-of-the-guardians-100-best-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit Angstrom named one of The Guardian’s 100 best novels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America’s great literary protaganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby,” The Guardian<\/em> wrote in naming Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels<\/em> No. 88 on their list of 100 best novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“John Updike is 20th-century American literature\u2019s blithe spirit, a virtuoso of language whose perfect pitch illuminated every line he wrote with an airy and zestful brilliance,” Robert McCrum wrote. “He was always something of a miniaturist. His first hope was to be a poet. When that ambition misfired, he took his delight in the English sentence and made a name for himself as a\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0short story writer. Finally, he brought his gifts of wit, curiosity and invention to the American novel. By the end of his career, he had become one of the most complete and versatile men of letters in his country\u2019s history. Among many possible fiction choices \u2013 his debut,\u00a0The Poorhouse Fair<\/em>; the sensational scandal of\u00a0Couples<\/em>; the exhilarating magical realism of\u00a0The Witches of Eastwick<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 I\u2019ve picked his panoramic masterpiece,\u00a0the Harry Angstrom series<\/a>, a portrait of America compiled over four decades:\u00a0Rabbit, Run<\/em>\u00a0(1960);\u00a0Rabbit Redux\u00a0<\/em>(1971);\u00a0Rabbit Is Rich\u00a0<\/em>(1981); and\u00a0Rabbit at Rest<\/em>\u00a0(1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom, Updike’s lovably mediocre alter ego, is one of America’s great literary protaganists, up there with Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby,” The Guardian wrote in naming Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels No. 88 on their list of 100 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","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\/5150","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}