«Dilvo Ristoff's new study offers an intriguing portrait of John Updike as a meticulous chronicler of American history. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) After completing it we are bound to have heightened respect for Updike's (and Ristoff's) encyclopedic knowledge and are also likely to read the Rabbit tetralogy as a kind of panorama of the American scene from the 1950s until the early 1990s.» (Townsend Ludington, Cary C. This study, which is a remarkably thorough delving into Updike's historical imagination, makes fascinating reading in part because of its clear, direct style.
More than that, 'John Updike's Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History' reveals how and why that history is used. Following what Professor Ristoff calls a 'scene-centered approach' such as he used in 'Updike's America', his earlier study of the first three Rabbit novels, Professor Ristoff provides an in-depth examination of Updike's extensive use of contemporary American history. «Dilvo Ristoff's new study of John Updike's fourth Rabbit novel, 'Rabbit at Rest', is essential reading for every Updike scholar.
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