Rabbit Redux, John Updike. Stated first edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket (11/71). Some chipping on top of spine. In a mylar protective wrapper. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Red cloth with silver lettering on front cover and spine. No writing or markings in the well preserved book, 406 pp.
This is the second book in Updike's Rabbit series. The series begins with Rabbit, Run followed by Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest, published from 1960 to 1990, and the related 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. There are 4 1/2 books each written at the end of a decade, between 1960-1990.
Rabbit Redux is about a former basketball star, now 36, who finds his life is at a crossroads. A fear that he also sees reflected in the economic decline of his hometown in Brewer, Pennsylvania.
Time magazine said of the book and its author, "Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit." A writer from the New York Times called it "a masterpiece" upon publication. In 2015, The Guardian ranked it number 88 in a list of the 100 Best Novels.
