Rabbit Redux: 2 - Softcover

Updike, Professor John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449911934 ISBN 13: 9780449911938

Publisher: Random House Trade, 1996

Synopsis

"A triumph."

NEWSDAY

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.

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Review:

"A masterpiece . . . Updike owns a rare verbal genius, a gifted intelligence and a sense of tragedy made bearable by wit."--Time

"An awesomely accomplished writer . . . For God's sake, read the book. It may even--will probably change your life."--Anatole Broyard

"A superb performance, all grace and dazzle . . . a brilliant portrait of middle America."--Life

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449911934
• ISBN 13: 9780449911938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448