Rabbit At Rest
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
The final installment in John Updike's celebrated Rabbit tetralogy, Rabbit at Rest is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of literary fiction that chronicles the last chapter in the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a former high school basketball star now facing the quiet devastation of old age, failing health, and a crumbling American Dream. Set against the backdrop of late 1980s America — a nation grappling with junk bonds, the crack epidemic, and cultural malaise — Updike uses Harry's decline as a piercing meditation on mortality, consumerism, and the hollowness of a life half-lived. The novel unfolds with Updike's signature prose: richly sensory, psychologically acute, and suffused with a melancholy wit that transforms the mundane into the profound. Harry retreats to his Florida retirement community, yet finds no true peace, as family dysfunction, personal regret, and a weakening heart conspire to force a reckoning he has spent a lifetime avoiding. Widely regarded as one of the great American novels of the twentieth century, it stands as both a deeply human portrait of one man's end and a sweeping elegy for a particular vision of America itself.
Author: John Updike
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
The final installment in John Updike's celebrated Rabbit tetralogy, Rabbit at Rest is a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of literary fiction that chronicles the last chapter in the life of Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a former high school basketball star now facing the quiet devastation of old age, failing health, and a crumbling American Dream. Set against the backdrop of late 1980s America — a nation grappling with junk bonds, the crack epidemic, and cultural malaise — Updike uses Harry's decline as a piercing meditation on mortality, consumerism, and the hollowness of a life half-lived. The novel unfolds with Updike's signature prose: richly sensory, psychologically acute, and suffused with a melancholy wit that transforms the mundane into the profound. Harry retreats to his Florida retirement community, yet finds no true peace, as family dysfunction, personal regret, and a weakening heart conspire to force a reckoning he has spent a lifetime avoiding. Widely regarded as one of the great American novels of the twentieth century, it stands as both a deeply human portrait of one man's end and a sweeping elegy for a particular vision of America itself.