Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest

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Athletic prose captures the enchantments of life.

Rabbit Angstrom, a series of four novels by John Updike, follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom and his family as they navigate the frustrations and triumphs of American life over several decades. Updike's prose is fluid and lyrical, almost athletic, evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and familiarity. A great read for those who enjoy character-driven stories with beautiful writing.

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Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest

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ISBN: 9780679444596
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Authors: John Updike
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Date of Publication: 1995-10-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 4.25
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When we first met him in Rabbit, Run (1960), the book that established John Updike as a major novelist, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom is playing basketball with some boys in an alley in Pennsylvania during the tail end of the Eisenhower era, reliving for a moment his past as a star high school athlete. Athleticism of a different sort is on display throughout these four magnificent novels—the athleticism of an imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with a seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments and disenchantments of life.Updike revisited his hero toward the end of each of the following decades in the second half of this American century; and in each of the subsequent novels, as Rabbit, his wife, Janice, his son, Nelson, and the people around them grow, these characters take on the lineaments of our common existence. In prose that is one of the glories of contemporary literature, Updike has chronicled the frustrations and ambiguous triumphs, the longuers, the loves and frenzies, the betrayals and reconciliations of our era. He has given us our representative American story.This Rabbit Angstrom volume is composed of the following novels: Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest.
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Athletic prose captures the enchantments of life.

Rabbit Angstrom, a series of four novels by John Updike, follows the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom and his family as they navigate the frustrations and triumphs of American life over several decades. Updike's prose is fluid and lyrical, almost athletic, evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and familiarity. A great read for those who enjoy character-driven stories with beautiful writing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.