{"product_id":"2026200007482-secondhand-rabbit-at-rest","title":"Rabbit At Rest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887905878235,"sku":"2026200007482-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/50a48e82-271e-4e89-acaa-975ea9afa496.png?v=1781748635","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007482-secondhand-rabbit-at-rest","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}