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Rabbit at Rest

by John Updike

3.6
(14 ratings)
608 pages1960Penguin Group UKISBN 9780141915197

About this book

It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can't. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn't have much time left ...

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Group UK
Published
1960
Pages
608
ISBN
9780141915197
Language
en

About John Updike

**Prof. John Updike**, American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

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