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Week 88 and we're back on track after a short break. This week's pick is Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike or actually the entire Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels series of which Rabbit Redux is Robert McCrum's favorite.

from the article:

"John Updike is 20th-century American literature’s blithe spirit, a virtuoso of language whose perfect pitch illuminated every line he wrote with an airy and zestful brilliance. 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 New Yorker short 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’s history. Among many possible fiction choices � his debut, The Poorhouse Fair; the sensational scandal of Couples; the exhilarating magical realism of The Witches of Eastwick � I’ve picked his panoramic masterpiece, the Henry Angstrom series, a portrait of America compiled over four decades: Rabbit, Run (1960); Rabbit Redux (1971); Rabbit Is Rich (1981); and Rabbit at Rest (1990)."
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"After the fourth “Rabbit� book appeared in 1990, there were later, and shorter, outings, notably the novella Rabbit Remembered, published in a collection entitled Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, "Rabbit Remembered" (2001). John Updike died from lung cancer in January 2009."

The article can be found

I read this back in the early 80s and found it dull. Maybe I should revisit this series but there are so many books I haven't read even once yet...

Another one I haven't read, and I'm not sure I will read this either!

I haven't read this either. It doesn't seem to appeal

OK, so here's me jumping to the defence of the Rabbit series ;): it's a really good series!! I liked the first book of the series especially. It's a portrait of a very dysfunctional family so as such not an uplifting read, but a smart, sometimes black humoured and sometimes very brutal one by a great author.

Thanks Jenny! Rabbit Run is coming up in my individual challenge, and i was getting worried....

Only 12 novels to go! I wonder what they're going to be?!

Gill wrote: "Only 12 novels to go! I wonder what they're going to be?!"

Wow and we are only up to 1971!