Rabbit at rest
Updike, John (1932-2009)
Rabbit at rest / John Updike - 1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed - New York : Fawcett Columbine , 1996. - 466 p. ; 21 cm.
In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live.
9780449911945
96096647
Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Middle class men----Fiction
Middle aged men----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PS3571.P4 / R23 1996
FIC UPD
Rabbit at rest / John Updike - 1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed - New York : Fawcett Columbine , 1996. - 466 p. ; 21 cm.
In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behaving erratically; his daughter-in-law, Pru, is sending out mixed signals; and his wife, Janice, decides in mid-life to become a working girl. As, though the winter, spring, and summer of 1989, Reagan's debt-ridden, AIDS-plagued America yields to that of George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age, looking for reasons to live.
9780449911945
96096647
Angstrom, Harry (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Middle class men----Fiction
Middle aged men----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PS3571.P4 / R23 1996
FIC UPD