Apocalypse redux!
8.5/10
Following on from my post about John Updike’s seminal ‘Rabbit, Run‘, ‘Rabbit Redux‘ is the second in Updike’s quartet of novels chronicling the life and times of America as seen through the eyes of everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Written - as with the other three - at the tale end of one decade (here, [...]
Book Review: John Updike - Rabbit Redux
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Fiction
Tags:1960s·America·Black Power·civil rights·free love·freedom·Harry Angstrom·John Updike·Rabbit·suburbia·USA·Vietnam
David Lodge - Changing Places
January 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Fiction
Changing places in changing times
7.5/10
‘Changing Places‘ forms part of a trilogy of campus novels (along with ‘Small World’ and ‘Nice Work‘) by the popular British author that are now available to purchase as an anthology. Reading all three books is further necessitated by the fact they share common characters. ‘Changing Places‘ is about the [...]
Tags:1960s·campus novel·David Lodge
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Fiction
No sex please, we’re British
7/10
Ian McEwan’s ‘On Chesil Beach‘ is conspicuous in its brevity. It has the air of a quickly written novella, an act of catharsis to exorcise some thematic threads between novels. Sadly one is left with a feeling that more could have been made of this scenario and the characters, and concerning [...]