Word: rabbiters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originality. Hart's background characters are better creations than his protagonists. The two not-so-innocent visitors from Harrisburg are superb caricatures, as is the TV actress so enmeshed in her role of Alice in Wonderland that her husband complains, "Did you every try to sleep with The White Rabbit...
John Updike, at 30, is among the youngest, most gifted, and most solidly established of the new novelists. His career so far has been the kind young men dream about; six of his books, including two well-received novels (The Poorhouse Fair, and Rabbit, Run) have been published. A third novel, The Centaur, will be issued later this month; it is a complex attempt to combine as parallel themes reminiscence of small-town boyhood with Greek mythology. There is almost no critic who has not praised Updike's crystalline style, his mastery of the distilled phrase. Yet amid...
...neutral middle range of emotion and event. His heroes, particularly those of his short stories, tend to be young boys or young husbands whose problems are small, and whose perceptions, although perfect and sometimes intense, are small also. The sole (and partial) exception is his novel of Everyslob, Rabbit, Run. Here his hero is a former high school basketball star whose memories of past glory give him immortal longings. When his life runs aground in the shallows of marriage, he is moved in anguish to ask: "Is this all there is?" It might also be asked of Updike...
Except for Rabbit, Run Updike has risked little. The risk of sloppy writing-one taken by most great novelists from Dostoevsky to Faulkner-is unthinkable to him; a page of prose, he feels, should be able to stand alone. "I would not attempt a big novel yet," he says. "My experience is too limited; I would be out of my depth." Such modesty is unexceptionable; yet it is hard to escape the feeling that out of his depth is exactly the place for a young novelist...
...Buck Rabbit, now 54, that was only the half of it. After the first trial, he was cabled by his lawyers that a motion for a new trial had been denied. Reynolds therefore felt free to marry a German girl named Annemarie Schmitt, who was taking a round-the-world cruise with him at the time. But Muriel's lawyers had quickly appealed the denial to the Georgia Supreme Court, leaving Buck and Doe Rabbit still legally...