Beginning with a kid’s back-alley basketball game, Updike’s novel, ‘Rabbit, Run’, lures the reader in by foreshadowing the deeper events to come later. The game is interrupted by an ‘odd adult’, 26 year old Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom – our (anti-?) hero. Even here, on the basketball court, where Rabbit feels most at ease in his own skin,… Continue reading Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Tag: literary fiction
Stoner – John Williams
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.” Although I thought I was 50 years late to reading (and writing a review of) Stoner (1965) by John Williams, it turns out I’m really… Continue reading Stoner – John Williams
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s new novel is being released this September…