7/6/2023 0 Comments Rabbit run novel![]() ![]() Changes were made to the American version of the text, but the omitted passages were restored for a British version, and all subsequent publications of the book have presented the text intact. Indeed, Knopf feared that the sex in the novel might lead to obscenity charges, and even legal action. Although it owed much of its vision and many of its strategies to Nabokov, Joyce, Woolf, and the cinema, Updike combined these elements in a way that was nothing less than startling. The blending of precision and poetry in its language, its raw and graphic sexuality, its amoral characters, and the careful attention it paid to the minutiae of middle-class life were all more or less new to the public. ![]() When it was published in 1960, Rabbit, Run heralded a distinctly new voice in American literature. Rabbit, Run was, to put it bluntly, the book that made John Updike - a mere twenty-eight years old at the time - a star. ![]()
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