Rabbit Redux[兔子归来][Rabbit series 2]

 The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and several other accolades for his dry, sulky novels chronicling the life of ex-basketball player "Rabbit" Angstrom, John Updike has become a legendary American author. He turns out the flaws in his characters and relationships, simultaneously affirming their worth. Rabbit Redux is the second of five John Updike Rabbit novels, all of which focus on their central character Harry Angstrom. In Rabbit Redux, Harry Angstrom - known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters - finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order. The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. John Updike was born in 1932 in Pennsylvania and has published more than 30 novels plus works of poetry, short stories and essays. John Updike is only one of three Americans to win two Pulitzer Prizes (the others are Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner). He has won many other prestigious literary awards. RosettaBooks is proud to publish the complete Rabbit set Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich (National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize), Rabbit at Rest (Pulitzer Prize) and Rabbit Remembered.
《兔子归来》以1960年代这个特殊时期为背景,描写了与越南战争、种族冲突、女权运动、性革命、反文化运动等社会事件和现象相关的各个方面.作者通过把镜头聚焦在主人公兔子哈里身上以及对其家庭矛盾的细致入微的叙述,使读者清晰地感受到那个特殊年代的种种社会问题并由此导出的自我认同危机.同时,这本小说也是厄普代克作品中政治意味最为强烈的小说之一.从某种意义上说,这和作者本人的政治立场,尤其是作为一个中产阶级白人作家的立场是分不开的.