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John Updike's troubling novel Rabbit, Run is of very uneven quality. Fortunately, the farther the reader gets into it, the better it is. Throughout the book, Updike demonstrates that he is a master of descriptive detail, something that his command of language enables him to apply to just about anything that life has to offer in the small, not particularly interesting city, where his story is located.
Too often, however, especially in the first half of the book, Updike becomes so intricately involved in finely nuanced descriptions that one loses sight of the context and wholeness of whatever it is that's caught the author's interest. There is a good deal of sex in Rabbit, Run, but Updike's disposition to capture every shadow, reflection, curve, ringlet, twitch, thrust, vocalization, shift in the position of an elbow ... sometimes disassembles it until it's almost unrecognizable and decidedly lacking in eroticism. No, Updike has no obligation to write in a way that his readers find titillating, but there should be a reason for his determination to capture every discrete part of every performance, and sometimes there is none. His lengthy visual deliberation on the scene when Rabbit Angstrom, his protagonist, first makes love to Ruth is so thoroughly dissected that the whole is almost unrecognizable. Yes, it's really clever of him to be able to accomplish this transformation, but what's the point.Read more ›
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It took me a while to get around to writing a review of this incredible book by John Updike. Processing the intense feelings and experience I had reading this piece was difficult, as I was reading it during the two weeks or so before and after my newest baby boy was brought into this world - and in no way did I expect the book's powerful statements to knock me down and drive over me like the ka-clack of a steam engine towing a hundred cars with wheels that cut and sliced my heart.
When I started the book I was completely uninterested. The first twenty-five pages of the action was a street pickup basketball game, but I am the type of guy that always needs to finish a book regardless of how much I hate it. Besides the needless (and frankly out-of-place) Matt Christopher opening, the book continues by delving into a desperate series of life choices that lead events that are so terribly American and so tragically male. While I almost put it down at the beginning for sheer disinterest, I am so glad I stuck with it. It wasn't until later that the meaning and the need for the opening became clear.
As the young retail salesman Rabbit Angstrom travels through his life, a once popular and record breaking high school basketball star who pushes kitchen trinkets to afternoon housewives, he learns that his life has not had the amazing sparkle and energy that he thought it would. He is a father, and is expecting another child, and recognizes that his job, pay, marriage, possessions, and family - all of the elements that make up the life of a man - leave him disaffected and dissatisfied.Read more ›
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John Updike is a 20th Century author, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for two books in the "Rabbit" series, "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest." "Rabbit Run" and "Rabbit Redux" are first two in the series and one should read "Rabbit Run" before reading "Rabbit Redux." They are an intimate portrait of the life and times of Harry Angstrom (nick-named Rabbit), who lives in the the early to mid-20th Century. Why is Harry's life of interest? Because Updike's unique ability to put words together that convey the depth and beauty of ordinary lives and ordinary surroundings is captivating. I felt very involved in Harry's life and the lives of his family and friends and couldn't wait to get back to it after having to put it down for a while. I really enjoyed it and think you will, too.
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A great read...........brings back many memories having lived during those years...........Rabbit has many facets....not all good but still turns out loveable. The author explores and makes real the many emotions, comforts and confusion of living.
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For insight into the minds of a variety of characters: 4.5 stars
Plot: 2.5 stars
Likeability or appeal of main characters: 1 star
There were times when I hated this book. However, Updike manages to keep one reading in some mysterious way. Not a book to read when depressed, and not for those readers who are impatient with characters who continue to repeat their mistakes.
Nevertheless, I'm glad I finally read it because it explains a lot about why Updike is a controversial author.
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