Please try again. William Hope's brilliant reading, has made all four Rabbit books a delight. To consider the 1,700-odd pages of his Harry Angstrom sagathe bounding tetralogy of Rabbit "John Updike's Rabbit at Rest: Appropriating History" is a new historicist reading of Updike's last Rabbit novel. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class", Updike was recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output he wrote on average a book a year. Please try again. 1990 John Updike (P)2015 Audible, Ltd. Rabbit at Rest won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award. It seemed like an opportune time to put Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom to rest by tackling 'Rabbit at Rest.' It's taken me a little while to get round to reading this final novel in the Rabbit series, not least because I wanted to have it to look forward to. And after completing this concluding work, "Rabbit at Rest," I feel confident in declaring, even after admitting that I've not experienced the other works in this series, that this has to be the most compelling, the most complete emotionally and most heart rending of all the others. Rabbit at Rest is a 1990 novel by John Updike. He's swiftly wearing out. It is the best novel about America to come out of America for a very, very long time.The Washington Post Book World Powerful . He was a popular basketball star in high school during the 1950s and it seemed to define his narcissistic outlook throughout his life. In fact he's frozen, incapacitated by his fear of death--and in the final year of the Reagan era, he's right to be afraid. While in hiding, Harry has a heart attack shortly after winning a one-on-one basketball game with a local youth (echoing the opening of Rabbit, Run in which Harry impulsively joins a group of teenagers playing basketball). 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Harry, nearly 40 years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city, has retired with Janice, his wife of 33 years, to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, dangerously overweight and desperate for reasons to keep on living. Finalists. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Information about rabbit repellent - analysis of types and effectiveness. Once again Updike manages to pull off a vividly personal story of Harry Angstrom's continuing struggles, with himself and those around him, against the backdrop of America in the 20th century. Selfishness and lechery are still getting the better of him. Updike finishes up his Rabbit tetralogy here, with retired Harry Rabbit Angstrom in Florida half the year and then back in Pennsylvanialate in 1989: the last year of Rabbit's life, it turns out. (Actually a series of books: I read Rabbit is Rich and then this one, virtually together), Personal struggles against a national backdrop, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2012. The hardest thing for me however was the endless layering of detail reminiscent of 19th-century realist novelists. 'Rabbit At Rest' is the fourth in the 'Rabbit Angstrom' series by John Updike. (the audio version) Each of the four Rabbit books have had perfect endings and this one also is spot on. After Nelson comes back from a treatment program, and Janice begins work as a real estate agent, the family finds out that Harry has had a one-night stand with Pru, Nelson's wife, on the night after he was released from the hospital. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Elegiac passages designed to confer Rabbit and his world with a romantic glow did not work for me. 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