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  • Rabbit Is Rich

  • Written by: John Updike
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Rabbit Is Rich

Written by: John Updike
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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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 (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.
©1996 John Updike (P)2009 Random House
Psychological Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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"The reviewers seemed to be under the impression that the hero was a terrible character. It's incredible! No, I think it's the most interesting American novel I've read in quite a long time"
—Mary McCarthy, interviewed in The Paris Review

"The power of the novel comes from a sense, not absolutely unworthy of Thomas Hardy, that the universe hangs over our fates like a great sullen hopeless sky. There is real pain in the book, and a touch of awe."—Norman Mailer, Esquire

"...An American protest against all the attempts to impress upon us the 'healthy, life-loving and comic' as our standard for novels. It is sexy, in bad taste, violent, and basically cynical. And good luck to it."—Angus Wilson, naming three Books of the Year in the Observer

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Nobody writes middle America like John Updike.

Updike is a genius, listening to the booming 70’s while inflation is going wild in 2021.. This series really holds up and ages better than well.. Also, only Updike can write all the filthy thoughts that a man can’t describe! The swinging 70’s indeed..

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