The Nation, December 3rd, 1990
RABBIT'S AT REST
I must begin by confessing a fondness for the character of Harry Angstrom that has little to do with literary discrimination. I think of him the way soap opera fans are supposed to regard the characters on the programs they watch, as though he were a real person, a distant but beloved member of the family, and I feel the same say-it-isn't-so sense of loss, at the end of his tetralogy (and of his life), that made Sherlock Holmes's fans implore Conan Doyle to restore their hero to life. Except that I know the rules for serious literature and medical science don't work that wa...
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