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Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1991, Paperback, Reissue) 
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1991, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1991, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0449245489
ISBN-13: 9780449245484
Product ID: EPID512331
Description: Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors,...
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Synopsis
Updike's third novel (after RABBIT, RUN and RABBIT REDUX) about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom follows the Pennsylvania car salesman's passage into middle age in the turbulent 1970s. Rabbit has achieved success as a salesman at Springer Motors, but his life is not without problems, including the return of his recalcitrant son Nelson, the return of an old flame into his life, and the ever-volatile relationship with Janice, his wife. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1982.

Details
Publication Date:1991-10-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:7.0 in
Width:4.0 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:7.2 oz

Publisher's Note
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....

Industry Reviews
"What the New World was to Renaissance cartographers, sex is to Updike. No one has put so many coasts, bays, and rivers where once there was only silence. It is all steamy but not exactly stimulating....Updike's merciless attention and packed style do get in the way....[The] busy marriage bed finally gets as romantic as the April issue of 'Consumer Reports'. ...[W]hat this Rabbit is really about is no longer running, running out of the social fix, but the decay that is never so much noticed as when you are looking, post coitum homo triste est, at the beloved's flabby buttocks....Death and death and death dominate (in thought) a life outwardly rich....A brilliant book, this, and though a chastening one, what we deserve."
New York Review of Books - Alfred Kazin (11/19/1981)

"It is superb--the most important American novel I've read in years."
John Cheever

"The reviewers seemed to be under the impression that the hero was a terrible character. It's incredible! No, I think it's the most interesting American novel I've read in quite a long time."
Paris Review - Mary McCarthy (01/01/1981)

"It is not for nothing that Playboy has serialized parts of this novel, for Updike has never written more, or more lavishly, about sex. The mystery remains, but the insistent brooding has diminished....For me, RABBIT IS RICH is the first book in which Updike has fulfilled the fabulous promise he offered with RABBIT RUN and THE CENTAUR 20 years ago."
New York Times Book Review - Roger Sale (09/27/1981)

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