Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit, #4)

by John Updike

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live. 

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

Rabbit’s son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in midlife to become a working girl. As, through 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. The geographical locale is divided between Brewer, in southestern Pennyslvania, and Deleon, in southwestern Florida.
  • ISBN10 0449911942
  • ISBN13 9780449911945
  • Publish Date 27 August 1996 (first published 1 October 1990)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 August 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.