Rabbit Is Rich (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Rabbit Is Rich (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Rabbit Is Rich (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by John Updike

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Overview

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century.

The hero of John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux, has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last—until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit’s middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780449911822
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/27/1996
Series: Rabbit , #3
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 544
Sales rank: 138,593
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.15(d)
Lexile: 1180L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

March 18, 1932

Date of Death:

January 27, 2009

Place of Birth:

Shillington, Pennsylvania

Place of Death:

Beverly Farms, MA

Education:

A.B. in English, Harvard University, 1954; also studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England

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Roger Sale

Someone once said that reading a John O'Hara novel is like reading the Sears catalogue. Updike can be like that too, since once he starts on . . .the way it was, he usually goes until exhausted. So the book is too long. . . .But . . .the sentence-by-sentence writing here is, at least by Updike's lush standards, not excessive at all. . . .For me Rabbit Is Rich is the first book in which Updike has fulfilled the fabulous promise he offered with Rabbit Run and The Centaur. . . -- The New York Times

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