Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

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.

In 1954, John Updike graduated from Harvard College and spent a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. He was a member of The New Yorker's staff from 1955 until 1957. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his works. Updike earned the Rea Prize for Short Fiction in 2006, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his Early Tales (1953-1975). In January 2009, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780449911822
ISBN 10	0449911829
Title	Rabbit Is Rich
Author	John Updike
Series	Rabbit
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-08-27
Number of pages	544
Prizes	Winner of National Book Awards 1982, Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1982
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