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<text id=90TT2169>
<title>
Aug. 13, 1990: Rabbit Stew
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 13
Rabbit Stew
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<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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<p> Giving away the ending of a movie or novel is considered
very bad form. But for weeks Manhattan's literary gossip has
been twittering with the news that John Updike's Rabbit at
Rest, which will be published in October, concludes with the
death of its hero. What's more, Updike himself has been fueling
this story, both in a June speech at the American Booksellers'
Association convention in Las Vegas and in the New York Times
Book Review. How to explain all this fuss about the fate of an
imaginary character? Well, Harry C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom first
appeared 30 years ago in Rabbit, Run and then re-emerged in
Rabbit Redux (1971) and Rabbit Is Rich (1981). A lot of readers
have periodically checked the progress of their lives against
that of the onetime high school basketball star from eastern
Pennsylvania. Rabbit's demise seems a gloomy reminder of
individual mortality. Fortunately, despite all the chatter,
there is an escape clause. In his Times essay, Updike never
explicitly says Rabbit dies. Neither, as readers will discover
in two months, does Rabbit at Rest.
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