The second Rabbit novel by John Updike finds the hero in the midst of late 60s' turmoil, the flight to suburbia and disintegrating cities. As his wife, Janice, says of Harry Angstrom: "He put his life into rules he feels melting away now." It is an astute snapshot of time, seasoned with a preoccupation with sex that seems nostalgic today. Updike's sex scenes are good even when they're bad, because they demonstrate a writer willing to take bold steps into the intersection between the physical and the psychological.
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