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Rabbit Is Rich

John Updike

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Winner:National Book Critics Circle Award -Fiction (1981)
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to pieces, but Harrry's doing all right. That is, until his son returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot....

Book Details

  • Publisher: Random House Group
  • Publish Date: Aug 27th, 1996
  • Pages: 544
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 1.30in - 1.25lb
  • EAN: 9780449911822
  • Categories: LiterarySagasPsychological

About the Author

John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Praise for this book

"Unquestionably Updike's finest novel . . . Funny and sharp and damnably intelligent."--The Boston Globe

"Dazzlingly reaffirms Updike's place as master chronicler of the spiritual maladies and very earthly pleasures of the Middle-American male."--Vogue

"Rich, funny . . . Updike at the very height of his powers."--New York magazine