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Article: Rabbit Reread.
- Article from:
- The Southern Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
- Author:
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FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1950, AMERICANS are leaving a decade behind without the company of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, John Updike's fictional Toyota dealer and former high-school basketball star. Not only is Rabbit dead, he's been ceremonially interred in Rabbit Angstrom (1995), the one-volume Everyman's Library edition of the four novels that bear his name. In the forty years since the publication of Rabbit, Run, a literary phenomenon that began life as a scandal has achieved a kind of revered, grand-old-man status-still delighting and surprising, certainly selling, but no longer capable of shocking. By 1990 there was something inevitable and almost taken for granted ...
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