Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
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Updike's fourth "Rabbit" novel presents the human condition as personified by Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. The fat, aging, ill Rabbit must also cope with his son's drug addiction, his wife's troubles, a former girlfriend who turns up suffering from lupus, and the world in general, with which Rabbit has always had a love-hate relationship. In this last work of his tetralogy, Updike dissects the horrors and failures of American society, while still managing to find hope, if not for Rabbit, then perhaps for the rest of us. RABBIT AT REST won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1991.
Editions of Rabbit at Rest
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Ballantine Books |
Date 1996 |
Price $1.00 |
 Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Book |
Publisher Knopf |
Date 1990 |
Price $6.50 |
Used, Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Alfred a Knopf Inc |
Date 1990 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Very Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Ballantine Books |
Date 1991 |
Price $1.00 |
Good |
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Binding/Format Prebinding |
Publisher Bt Bound |
Date 1999 |
Price None Available |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Random House Inc |
Date 1990 |
Price $1.00 |
Used, Good |
Publisher Notes
Ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife who has suddenly gone to work.
Media Reviews
"'Rabbit at Rest' is certainly the most brooding, the most demanding, the most concentrated of John Updike's longer novels. Its courageous theme--the blossoming and fruition of the seed of death we all carry inside us--is struck in the first sentence....This early note, so emphatically struck, reverberates through the length of the novel and invests its domestic-crisis story with an unusual pathos."
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