Rabbit at Rest - Softcover

John Updike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449219623 ISBN 13: 9780449219621

Publisher: Fawcett, 1991

Synopsis

Rabbit at Rest, the delightful last novel in the rabbit sequence, is both comic and moving. Rabbit, now in his middle fifties, is living in a condo in Florida. Nelson and his wife and children come to stay and disaster ensues; Rabbit has a serious heart attack after a boating attack with his granddaughter and Nelson is discovered to have been embezzling the family firm to feed his cocaine habit. The resolution of the Angstrom Family's conflicts is brilliantly described and draws a fascinatingly detailed picture of America at the beginning of the 1990s.

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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 Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0449219623
• ISBN 13: 9780449219621
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English