Rabbit at Rest
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, is giving him cause for concern. His son, Nelson, is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect....
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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, is 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141188447 (0141188448)
Publish date: May 1st 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Series: Rabbit Angstrom -4 (#4)
This final book in the Rabbit series is certainly the best of the four. With Rabbit in the later stages in life, with heart problems, you initially get the hope that he will finally come to his senses and change his ways, becoming less reckless and irresponsible. However, he continues to be such a...
It won a Pulitzer Prize and now I understand why. Without a doubt the best in the series, made the first three worth reading. The language and the insights and the descriptions. Each of the books (there are four) is a time capsule of the period in which it was written. This twines all the stories...
Eat a balanced diet. Exercise regularly. Avoid excessive drinking. Don't fuck your daughter-in-law. Lot of good life-style advice in this book...
30 years ago
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