| Author: | John Updike | ISBN: | 9780307744104 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group | Publication: | August 26, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Random House | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Updike |
| ISBN: | 9780307744104 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Publication: | August 26, 2010 |
| Imprint: | Random House |
| Language: | English |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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In John Updike’s fourth and final novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the hero has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending him mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to return to the world of work. As, through the year of 1989, Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.
