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John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
by Updike, John
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This third volume of Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels features the continuation of the renowned Rabbit saga and two wickedly funny satires that show Updike grappling with the aftermath of the 1960s in the charged realms of sex, politics, and family. In The Coup, Updike embarks on a surprising and withering satire set in the fictional African nation of Kush, where the American-educated Colonel Hakim Ellello has deposed the country's monarch and has installed himself as its leader. The book takes aim at an array of targets: American materialism and consumerism and its baleful effects on the developing world, the follies of Cold War geopolitics and its proxy conflicts, the absurd distortions of political ideologies, and the fevered megalomania of the dictatorial mind. Returning to familiar ground in Rabbit Is Rich, Updike continues the saga of Rabbit Angstrom, his greatest character and one of the indispensable creations of postwar American literature. Here in the third installment of the Rabbit tetralogy we meet up with Harry Angstrom, now 46, dealing as best he can with the challenges and cares of midlife, a time when "you are carrying the world in a sense and yet it seems more out of control than ever." In The Witches of Eastwick, the uproarious novel that became a popular 1987 film, Updike imagined a small New England town possessed by magic--at least as practiced by the female trio at its center who, freed from the burdens of their marriages, make common cause and unleash their whimsical witchcraft on Eastwick's narrow-minded townspeople. Written in Updike's characteristically dazzling prose, the novel was, he claimed, "a deliberate attempt to broaden my palette, and write about women not merely with sympathy but something like gusto, energy, and fun, even a little mischief."
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Updike, John
- ISBN: 9781598536775
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.90 x 1.50
- Number Of Pages: 950
- Publication Year: 2021
Language:
English