Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit, #4)
Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.In John 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 and daughter-in-law are acting erratically, his wife Janice wants to...
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Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.In John 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 and daughter-in-law are acting erratically, his wife Janice wants to work, and Rabbit is searching his soul, looking for reasons to live...."Brilliant...It must be read."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780449219621 (0449219623)
Publish date: August 31st 1991
Publisher: Fawcett
Pages no: 427
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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