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srbolton 's review for:
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
I haven’t read Updike in more than two decades, and I’ve never before read this novel that put him on the map. It’s clear what a great voice he had from his earliest writings, but I can’t help but feel at times that Rabbit Angstrom would be panned as a poor caricature today, that “older, less articulate Holden Caufield” seen by the book’s first NYT reviewer. At other times, I imagine critics of today would label the writing “patriarchal,” and even Joyce Carol Oates 1990 praise of the character and series seems thin in the #metoo era. I don’t know that Updike could get this story published today. Beyond all that, the writing is beautiful, the author exquisitely observant, and the women are developed well, if not fully. I look forward to reading the remains Rabbit novels.