Rabbit at Rest (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141188448 ISBN 13: 9780141188447

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

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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Review:

"Brilliant...It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time." -- The Washington Post Book World

"Powerful John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master." -- The New York Times Book Review
"The most authoritative and most magical portrait yet written of the past four decades of American life." -- Time
"A rich and rewarding novel...Updike is working at the full height of his powers." -- The New York Times

"Brilliant...It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time." -- The Washington Post Book World
"Powerful John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master." -- The New York Times Book Review

"The most authoritative and most magical portrait yet written of the past four decades of American life." -- Time

"A rich and rewarding novel...Updike is working at the full height of his powers." -- The New York Times

"Rich and rewarding . . . Updike is working at the full height of his powers."--"The New York Times"
"Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.""--The Washington Post Book World"
"Powerful . . . John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a "master."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review"

Rich and rewarding . . . Updike is working at the full height of his powers. "The New York Times"
Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time. " The Washington Post Book World"
Powerful . . . John Updike with his precisian s prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a "master. Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review""

Rich and rewarding . . . Updike is working at the full height of his powers. The New York Times
Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time. The Washington Post Book World
Powerful . . . John Updike with his precisian s prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master. Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

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-Rich and rewarding . . . Updike is working at the full height of his powers.---The New York Times
-Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.---The Washington Post Book World
-Powerful . . . John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master.---Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

"Rich and rewarding . . . Updike is working at the full height of his powers."--The New York Times

"Brilliant . . . It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time."--The Washington Post Book World

"Powerful . . . John Updike with his precisian's prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of over fifty books, including The Poorhouse Fair; the Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest); Marry Me; The Witches of Eastwick, which was made into a major feature film; Memories of the Ford Administration; Brazil; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Toward the End of Time; Gertrude and Claudius; and Seek My Face. He has written a number of collections of short stories, including The Afterlife and Other Stories and Licks of Love, which includes a final Rabbit story, Rabbit Remembered. His essays and criticism first appeared in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, and are now collected into numerous volumes. Collected Poems 1953-1993 brings together almost all of his verse, and a new edition of his Selected Poems is forthcoming from Hamish Hamilton.

His novels, stories, and non-fiction collections have won have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.

Updike graduated from Harvard College in 1954, and spent a year at Oxford's Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of staff at the New Yorker, and he lived in Massachusetts from 1957 until his death in January 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141188448
• ISBN 13: 9780141188447
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512