Rabbit is rich
by John Updike
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The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania. The time is 1979: Skylab is falling, gas lines are lengthening, the President collapses while running in a marathon, and double-digit inflation coincides with a deflation of national confidence. Nevertheless, Harry Angstrom feels in good shape, ready to enjoy life at last-- until his son, Nelson, returns from the West, and the image of an old love pays a visit to his lot. New characters and old populate these scenes from Rabbit's middle age, as he continues to pursue, in his erratic fashion, the rainbow of happiness.
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Fiction, Middle class men, Middle class men in fiction, Harry Angstrom (Fictitious character), Fiction.xpo, Literature, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1982, award:national_book_award=fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1981, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Angstrom, harry (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Psychological fiction, Fictional WorksPlaces
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Rabbit is rich
1996, Fawcett Columbine
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
0449911829 9780449911822
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It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It's all in place: he's Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way that things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he'll never live?
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