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  • Rabbit at Rest

  • Written by: John Updike
  • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
  • Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Rabbit at Rest

Written by: John Updike
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live.
©1996 John Updike (P)2009 Random House
Psychological Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Howells Medal, and the National Book Critics Circle Award

“Rich and rewarding ... Updike is working at the full height of his powers.”—The New York Times

“Brilliant ... It must be read. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Powerful ... John Updike with his precisian’s prose and his intimately attentive yet cold eye is a master.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

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It was the right ending..

It was the right ending, it was enough! I have finished the four rabbit books and I’m going to do Rabbit Remembered, even though I don’t think it’s necessary.. I think this book was the perfect ending to the series..

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