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Rabbit Is Rich

Updike, John (Book - - 1981)
Average Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
Rabbit Is Rich


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The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), 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,

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The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), 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.

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Authors: Updike, John
Statement of Responsibility: John Updike
Title: Rabbit is rich
Publisher: New York :, Knopf :, Distributed by Random House,, 1981
Edition: 1st ed
Characteristics: 467 p. ;,21 cm
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  • photogrrlkp rated this: 2 stars out of 5.

John Updike is a great writer. That being said, I really didn't like the "Rabbit" books, mostly because I couldn't muster up any sympathetic feelings for any of the characters. It seemed like all the books contained a never-ending stream of horrible behavior and endless justification and blaming of others. Not enjoyable to me.

1982 National Book Award - Fiction 1982 Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

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