For Rabbit, with love and squalor
Subtitle: an American read
By: Anne Roiphe.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Roiphe, Anne Richardson, 1935- -- Books and reading.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Men in literature.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor, Roiphe takes us on a glorious tour of the relationships she has had with the great male characters of American fiction: Holden Caulfield, Robert Jordan, Dick Diver, Rabbit, Nathan Zuckerman, Frank Bascombe, and Max and Mickey. In her literary love life Roiphe is a serial monogamist. When she is involved with one character she is exclusively his until another comes along.

She is an audience, an imaginary lover, and a critic, too - but a critic only in the way a relative carps or chides at the escapades of a dear one. Though a woman, she identifies with her male heroes; as a woman, she feels love, awe, worry, and tenderness toward them at the same time. Never have the great male creations of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Salinger, Roth and Updike, Ford and Sendak come alive so vibrantly through the critical imagination of a fellow novelist."--BOOK JACKET.