rabbit angstrom造句

• His most enduring creation, the one-time high school basketball star Rabbit Angstrom, has long since padded off into retirement, not quite sure where his life went or what it amounted to.
• Rabbit Angstrom is here, hitting a ball that " sputters to one side, crippled by a perverse top spin that makes it fall from flight as dumpily as a blob of clay ."
• For Rabbit Angstrom, with his constant musings on mortality, his near-witnessing of his daughter's death, and his often shaky faith, death is more frightening and less obvious in its ramifications.
• As sweet in its ode to the never-never land of pastoral myth as Updike's first tribute to Rabbit Angstrom, " American Pastoral " is as triumphantly unselfconscious as anything Roth has written.
• When the New York Film Festival made its first appearance, John F . Kennedy was in the White House, Ed Sullivan was on television, and Rabbit Angstrom had been running for only a couple of years.
• Not even the grave, or the 1, 516 cloth-bound pages of the Everyman's Library edition of " Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels, " could exhaust Rabbit's life force.
• Call it covert criticism, the suggestion that the forthcoming book " is the first of his novels that doesn't seem to be on cultural overload, " and describing Rabbit Angstrom as " infamous ."
• In 1995, Everyman's Library collected and canonized the four novels as the omnibus " Rabbit Angstrom "; Updike wrote an introduction in which he described Rabbit as " a ticket to the America all around me.
• Now, though, Updike has done a small about-face on Rabbit with publication of a new omnibus volume that includes all four Rabbit books _ " Rabbit Angstrom " ( Everyman's Library, $ 30 ).
• In recent years, Boston has become a city that kneels at the altar of the almighty dollar, the metropolitan equivalent of John Updike's most famous character, Rabbit Angstrom, rolling around his bed on a pile of gleaming Krugerrands.
• They include Clifford Odets'and Arthur Miller's histrionic heroes, John Updike's lusty, lucky Rabbit Angstrom, the haunted statistical strivers of 1950s critical sociology and, at a stretch, just about every movie cop and sitcom dad.
• And best of all, the quintessential normal guy is back : John Updike's " Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels " ( Everyman's Library . $ 30 ) in a single volume thicker than the heartiest cut of prime rib.
• And Updike also can recall where he finished the tale of Rabbit Angstrom in 1989, after " Rabbit, Run " ( 1960 ), " Rabbit Redux " ( 1971 ), " Rabbit Is Rich " ( 1981 ).
• Updike's character Rabbit Angstrom, the protagonist of the series of novels widely considered his " magnum opus ", has been said to have " entered the pantheon of signal American literary figures, " along with canonized by Everyman's Library.
• The most profound question concerning the American role in the post-Cold War world was improbably posed by Rabbit Angstrom, the harried main character of John Updike's novels : " Without the Cold War, what's the point of being an American ?"
• Taken as a whole, the Easy Rawlins novels, which span a period from 1948 to 1964, have less in common with Raymond Chandler ( with whom Mosley is constantly, and not terribly accurately, equated ) than they do with John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom series.
• "Rabbit Redux " led to a return in the popularity of the word redux and, in " Rabbit at Rest " ( 1990 ), Rabbit Angstrom notices " a story [ . . . ] in the Sarasota paper a week or so ago, headlined Circus Redux.
• Art, like the markets, has its own mechanisms for absorbing blows : John Updike, perched in a 10th-floor Brooklyn Heights apartment, coolly described, for " Talk of the Town, " the toppling of the towers, as though it were Rabbit Angstrom's Pennsylvania tract house that was burning.
• The third-person, present-tense narration of most of Larry's story _ " Larry loves to see a woman with raindrops in her hair "; " Of course Larry loves his kid " _ is reminiscent of that classic Everyman, Rabbit Angstrom, but here it feels impoverished and secondhand.
• Three of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, are in the top 10 along with John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Harper Lee's Atticus Finch and Edith Wharton's Lily Bart from " The House of Mirth ."