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Article: John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. (Book Reviews).
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- Christianity and Literature
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- September 22, 2001
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John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion. By Marshall Boswell. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1310-3. Pp. xi + 253. $34.95.
Along with Toni Morrison's Beloved, John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom seems a good bet, among late-twentieth-century American works of fiction, to achieve "classic" status and be read one hundred years from now. Critics generally regard the five-volume work as Updike's supreme achievement, and at 1,700 pages it stands as one of the most extensively imagined fictional works in literature. Bolstering such a prediction is the fact that Updike studies are thriving. Between 1998 and 2001, nine critical ...