Library of America, Belletristik, John Updike: Novels 1986-1990 (Loa #354): Roger/'s Version / Rabbit at Rest (Englisch,...
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John Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne&rsquo s Scarlet Letter for contemporary America The latest volume in Library of America&rsquo s John Updike edition presents two essential novels by the master stylist of postwar American fiction. Roger&rsquo s Version (1986) stakes out ground that encompasses Updike&rsquo s recurring themes of sex, desire, and adultery as well as an emerging interest in the cosmic implications of contemporary scientific breakthroughs. In a dazzling refashioning of the love triangle at the heart of Hawthorne&rsquo s The Scarlet Letter, twin adulteries unfold, revealing the heightened contrasts and inequalities of Ronald Reagan&rsquo s America. Widely hailed upon publication as a masterpiece, awarded a Pulitzer and a National Book Critics Circle prize, Rabbit at Rest (1990) wraps up the saga of Updike&rsquo s most enduring protagonist and concludes his &ldquo surpassingly eloquent elegy for his country,&rdquo in the words of Joyce Carol Oates. Now in his mid-fifties, the outwardly comfortable and complacent Harry Angstrom has settled into leisured obsolescence, dividing his time between Pennsylvania and the Valhalla Village retirement community in Florida. But alongside his golfing, junk-food consumption, and other forms of ease there loom unavoidable markers of Rabbit&rsquo s human fragility and his mortality. .
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