American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1527 short lesson, about 20 seconds
John Updike and the Rabbit Novels
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The idea
Updike wrote of suburban settings, domestic themes and the eastern seaboard, and the witness calls him, like Cheever, a writer of manners. He is best known for five Rabbit books following one man across four decades of American social and political history.
In practice
One man, four decades, five books.
Where people slip
Roth is the writer he is compared with.
Your place on the trail
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