![]() ![]() ![]() Updike’s much anticipated sequel Rabbit Redux was additionally hailed as “a superb performance, all grace and dazzle… a brilliant portrait of middle America” ( Life), and “a great achievement, by far the most audacious and successful book Updike has written” ( New York Times Book Review). The Washington Post hailed this first in the series as “brilliant and poignant.” Updike’s hero “is compelled by sex, for him a transcendence of death as well as the only real satisfaction provided by a banal existence” (Vinson, 1399). John Updike’s Rabbit tetraology of four novels chronicles the life of ex-basketball player Rabbit Angstrom-a choice that “was inspired, one of those happy, instinctive accidents that so often shape a literary career” ( Books of the Century, 450). Octavo, original cloth, original dust jackets.įirst trade editions of all four novels in Updike’s critically acclaimed series, each volume signed or inscribed by Updike. “A SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT”: COMPLETE SET OF FIRST EDITIONS OF JOHN UPDIKE’S ACCLAIMED RABBIT TETRALOGY, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BYHIM ![]()
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