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RABBIT AT REST

RABBIT AT REST

RABBIT AT REST
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RABBIT AT REST Hardcover - 1990

by Updike, John

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first

A haunting novel that completes Updike's extraordinary tetralogy chronicling four decades of life in America. In the final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild while exploring the bleak terrain of late middle age and looking for reasons to live.

Used - Near Fine

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Knopf, NY (1990). Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in near fine purple and black striped dj. First Edition. unmarked and the binding is tight. Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. 512 pp.

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Details

  • Title RABBIT AT REST
  • Author Updike, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf, NY (1990), New York
  • Date 1990-09-26
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 66068
  • ISBN 9780394588155 / 0394588150
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.8 x 1.7 in (20.57 x 14.73 x 4.32 cm)
  • Reading level 1120
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90052953
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can't. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn't have much time left ...

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/01/1990, Page 0

About the author

JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.
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