Rabbit at Rest - Hardcover

Updike, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394588150 ISBN 13: 9780394588155

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 1990

Synopsis

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, 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. As, through the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.

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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 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 January 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0394588150
• ISBN 13: 9780394588155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528