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A review by crispymerola
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
An elegy in slow-motion. The last whimpering cry of a thirty-year effort to depict, in unsparing detail, the life of a character so despicable in his smallness, so heinous in his mediocrity, that one can't help but twist around in their disgust until it magically wraps itself into love. I love you, Rabbit! You crazy mother fucker!
Updike allows time to wield his pen - with every passing decade, he brings a new self to the page. I've watched the trickling specter of death become a gaping wound, and let it tear me in two. This book feels like dying.
And as Rabbit says, it isn't so bad.
Updike allows time to wield his pen - with every passing decade, he brings a new self to the page. I've watched the trickling specter of death become a gaping wound, and let it tear me in two. This book feels like dying.
And as Rabbit says, it isn't so bad.