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  • Published: 17 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141915197
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

Rabbit at Rest




'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright

It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can't. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn't have much time left ...

  • Published: 17 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141915197
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

About the author

John Updike

JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.

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